Richard Fish wrote:
> The geometry line above not-withstanding, I think the 2.4
> kernel on your old Knoppix disk doesn't support lba48
> (disks >137GB) addressing, which is changing the equation
> considerably on accessing the disk.
>
> Try going into the BIOS and change the disk access mode from
> "large" to "lba", then repeat your timings and geometry ID
> with new Knoppix/Gentoo.
I've changed the access mode from "auto" to "lba". The same results.
Then from "lba" to "large". Same results.
> Also, it might be interesting to see the dmesg output for the IDE
> controller.
With access mode set to "lba" (this is the same for "large"):
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: MAXTOR 4K040H2, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: ASUS CD-S500/A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78198750 sectors (40037 MB) w/2000KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
I will try the 2.4 kernel on wednesday.
Alex
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