Dear Debian users,
I am running Debian 2.2 and kernel 2.2.15 on a Pentium II 266, 128MB.
My 3 hard disks are reported at boot time as follows:
hda: Maxtor 90430D3, 4028MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1023/128/63, UDMA
hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200A, 3067MB w/76kB Cache, CHS=779/128/63, DMA
hdc: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, 13031MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=26476/16/63, UDMA
At present, Debian/GNU-Linux is on hdb and on hda I have windows.
The Fujitsu disk is my newest addition to the box. I am planing to move
Linux to this new 13GB environment. Unfortunately, I am not being able
to use the new disk!!
What is happening is that, already at the boot time, I get the
following message during the partition check:
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 >
hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=0, sector=0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
unable to read partition table
If I try to use fdisk, the following is produced
brandt:/proc/ide/ide0/hda# fdisk /dev/hdc
Unable to read /dev/hdc
At first I though that perhaps the disk was damaged. However, I have
booted windows and partioned and formated it, whitout any problems.
Then when I boot Linux again, I get the same DriveReady SeekComplete
Error message.
I know that there are some documentation at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt, but that did not help me very
much (mainly because of my lack of understanding).
Could anyone please help me to solve this problem?
Thank you very much,
Fernando
PS - What follows is some extra information from /proc/ide/hdc
brandt:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/cache
512
brandt:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/driver
ide-disk version 1.08
brandt:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
FUJITSU MPE3136AT
brandt:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/capacity
26688576
brandt:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry
physical 16383/16/63
logical 26476/16/63
brandt:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/media
disk
brandt:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/settings
name value min max
mode
---- ----- --- ---
----
bios_cyl 26476 0 65535 rw
bios_head 16 0 255 rw
bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw
bswap 0 0 1 r
file_readahead 124 0 2097151 rw
io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
max_kb_per_request 64 1 127 rw
multcount 0 0 8 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
nowerr 0 0 1 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
slow 0 0 1 rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
using_dma 1 0 1 rw
