Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> full message. But I think htis is memory.
> 
> ron
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:21:14 +0200
> From: Laurent Le Goffic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: help
> 
> Sorry ... the message has been cut
> anyway here is the original ... could you take a look at it please ?
> 
> 
>  /************************/
>  hda: FUJITSU MPG3204AT E, ATA DISK drive
> > hdc: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> > hda: 40031712 sectors (20496 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=39714/16/63, UDMA(33)
> > Partition check:
> >  hda: [PTBL] [2491/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> > loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
> > EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory
> > #12646
> > 5: unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode=4283650054, rec_len=35638,
> > name_len=116
> > initKernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> > : error while lo ading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: invalid ELF
> > header
> > /************************/
> 
> Can a bad LBA - CHS detection of the drive do such things ?

Not really.  The kernel doesn't use C/H/S translation.  It can badly
confuse fdisk.  And impact interoperability with other operating systems.
But in a pure Linux Environment you are fine.  There is a field that gives the
linear size of each partition, so the partition tables really don't care.

Anyway to rule out memory run memtest86.  And see if anything shows up.


> If you look at the CHS definition of the hard disk it says 39714 cyl , 16
> heads(CHS mode) but the partition table tells 2491,255,63 (LBA addressing ?)
> 
> If the LBA-CHS kernel addressing was bad it shouldn't find the /sbin/init
> file ...

You aren't running 2.4.19-prexxx or 2.5.xxx where they have been playing
with the IDE driver have you?

> Is there a way to put a disk on chip on a board that doesn't a doc socket
> ... ISA bus perhaps ?

A 32pin DIP socket is a specialized ISA connector.  With some address lines
hard coded.

Eric

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