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WDC HD found, but ignored?

DISCUSSION Nicholas Berry 1 participant 1 message Jun 24, 2003

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Tobias Diedrich <[email protected]> 06/23/03 07:14PM >>>

This is a really weird case.
The kernel (2.4.21-ac2) finds the hard disk (WDC WD1800JB-00DUA0),

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does not attach the ide-disk driver (No error message). The

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partition check fails with I/O error on sector 0. Attempts to access

the

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disk (In this case hdc) on the booted system result in the kernel

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to load the ide-disk module, which fails because it is compiled in. The works fine in this configuration when booting the W2K partition.

I hope someone has an idea on what is going wrong here. Please CC me on replies as I am not subscribed to the list at the moment.
Kernel boot log:

Linux version 2.4.21-ac2 (root@elektra) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002

(Debian prerelease)) #5 Sun Dec 1 18:56:36 CET 2002

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BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fffc000 - 000000003ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ffff000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

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Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=ext parport=auto

hdc=ide-scsi

hdc=ide-scsi? Do you really want this?

Nik