Possibly, you need only make a partition table with fdisk, and startup
will be much happier. This will disrupt any fs you have made on
/dev/hdb, but if you like you can make /dev/hdb1 to occupy the whole
drive (less the first track that the partition table must be in). The
partition table was in the original PC spec, so the IDE driver is not
expecting to find a hd without one, and may become somewhat confused.
HTH
Lawson
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Einar Sundgren wrote:
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> This is not a big problem but still it is there. When i boot my Redhat
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> system with kernel 2.0.36 i get this message=20
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> "(...)
> hdb: QUANTUM MAVERICK 270A, 258MB w/98kB Cache, CHS=3D944/14/40, DMA
> (...)
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> hdb:hdb: irq timeout: status=3D0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataReques=
t }
> hda: disabled DMA
> hdb: disabled DMA
> ide0: reset: success
> unknown partition table
> (...) "
> As it seems nothing is wrong with hda but on hdb first it takes really
lo=
ng time
> to do the check and then this irq timeout. It occured after that i did
a =
BIOS
> low level format of hdb and has been like that eversince, I have run
all =
fs
> check utilities I know about but none can find the error, the drive is
> mountable and read/write able so the problem is as i said not very big
bu=
t
> still a problem.
> The drive is a IDE drive manufactured for apple by quantum and i run it
o=
n a
> PC, maby the solution is there I don=B4t even know if that matters i
mean=
it
> still is an IDE drive
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