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Re: Seagate 8.4 gig drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (aaron zaeero)
Thu Nov 5 00:10:02 1998
From: "aaron zaeero" <aaz187@hotmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 21:08:22 PST
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Hi, (a newbie here)
I noticed the email and I have the same problem . I have a seagate 4.3
medalist UDMA drive and get the same seek errors upon bootup. however my
drive seems to work fine. What should I do? Should I try to correct
this? Any help/advice would be helpful
thanks
-aaz
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed Lazor <elazor@hcs.state.or.us>
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>Date: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 2:12 PM
>Subject: RE: Seagate 8.4 gig drive
>
>
>>
>>Ok, that didn't work but it was worth a try. I went in and created
dos
>>partitions on all three drives that were 15megs in size. During the
>>process, I noticed that DOS only saw 504megs of drive space - ie. the
1024
>>cyl. limit). I booted from the linux boot disk and went into the
install,
>>tried things again and it didn't work. I tried to collect as much
>>information as possible. Here's what I've noticed:
>>
>
>Yeah your controller is not translating the drive geometry at all...
>otherwise the fdisk could have handled a larger partition...
>
>>- Every time I've booted, I can do alt-f4 and I'll see the error
message:
>>
>> 4> Partition check
>> 4> hda:hda: set_multmode: status=0X51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
>> 4> hda: set_multmode: error=0X04 { DriveStatusError }
>>
>
>
>Yeap, the DriveReady/Seek complete error occurs as the system trys to
init
>the drives. It begins by seeking from the highest cylinder to the
lowest
>(also know as a recalibration...) Since the drive parameters are all
wrong
>the seek is never completing in the number of "steps" (cylinders) the
>controller/bios expects... and the controller times out, thinking that
the
>heads are at the zero cylinder but not getting a Zero detect from the
drive
>electronics..
>
>>- If I let the system bios autodetect the hard drive, I get into fdisk
>> and find that it thinks there are 1024 cyl, 255 heads, 63 sect.
>>
>>- If I manually set the drive geometry in bios to 16383,16,63, I get
into
>> fdisk and find that it thinks that there are 16676 cyl, 16 heads, 63
>>sectors.
>>
>>- When 1st booting off of the floppy, at the boot: prompt I tried
typing
>in:
>>
>> linux hda=16383,16,63
>> vmlinux hda=16363,16,63
>> linux ide1=16383,16,63
>>
>> None of those seemed to help.
>>
>
>
>The bios is attempting to deal with the drive geometry when it assigned
it
>1024 cyls... the controller itself is not helping things though. This
must
>be an old pentium or 486 system right?
>
>You might have to create an initial partition that falls well within
what
>the controller/bios reports... AFTER booting Linux, giving linux what
the
>BIOS sees as the drive geometry at the lilo prompt.
>
>If you do this you should be able to get a MBR which will work
correctly
>with Linux. If you can get at least this far, lilo can be made to
"enter"
>the drive geometry correctly for you at boot.
>
>Use the 1024 cyls manually entered when you start linux...
>
>Put the root and the swap partition within the first 500 megs, then you
>should be able to use the rest of the drive for other partitions...
>
>-JMS
>
>
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