The 2k sector support is imperfect;-( The media are recognised correctly (I've not tried switching between 230 Nbyte and 640 Mbyte disks), BUT Something can forget. I started with a Linux disk containing my archive of RHL 5.2 rpms. I did an rpm --verify of them all and they all checked out. I then ejected the disk (using the eject command; this did not work correctly with the first 2.2 kernels) and inserted an OS/2 HPFS disk. The disk checked out with sfdisk, but I can't mount it (Linux' HPFS support for these disks has never worked), so I ran a few commands to read data from t, culminating with dd to make a file of its contents. When I started dd, one of the other commands (strings, I think) was running, so there was probably some thrashing at first When dd finished, I could no longer read the partition table: [root@dugite /root]# fdisk -l -b 2048 /dev/sda [root@dugite /root]# fdisk -b 2048 /dev/sda Unable to read /dev/sda [root@dugite /root]# dmesg | tail sd.c:Bad block number requested I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1 I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1241224 I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1241224 ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 512-char blocks implemented (1024) sd.c:Bad block number requested I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1241224 ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 512-char blocks implemented (1024) sd.c:Bad block number requested I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 512-char blocks implemented (1024) sd.c:Bad block number requested I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 [root@dugite /root]# sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 606 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 605 606- 620528 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty [root@dugite /root]# Before the last sfdisk, I ejected the disk using the button on the drive and reinserted it. [root@dugite /root]# uname -a Linux dugite 2.4.0 #2 Wed Jan 10 08:06:30 WST 2001 i586 unknown [root@dugite /root]# fwiw I compiled the kernel targetting K6 with gcc 2.95. The SCSI chipset is AIC7xxx. [root@dugite /root]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530 Host (rev 03) 00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev b3) 00:01.1 Class ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP 00:0b.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-294x / AIC-7871 (rev 03) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 6306 3D-AGP (rev a3) [root@dugite /root]# -- Cheers John Summerfield http://www2.ami.com.au/ for OS/2 & linux information. Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index. Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
