Re: HDD questions

From: Roman Kurakin (rik_at_cronyx.ru)
Date: 03/16/04

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    Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:45:02 +0300
    To: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
    
    

    One more thing could we realy rely on presensents ATA_FLAG_54_58?
    As I find out 0 means "could be valid" (not "not valid") and in ATA-6 we
    could
    se that this bit is obsolete? So if word 54-58 are not valid (or may be
    not valid)
    doesn't mean that we have non LBA drive.

    rik

    Roman Kurakin wrote:

    > This is realy CHS request, not lba. I checked configuration it
    > contains 6 in
    > word 53 from indentify drive information. Ata driver decides because
    > of that
    > that hdd is in CHS mode not in LBA.
    > By the way I checked this hdd with other main board. I read this (I
    > hope that it
    > is realy this one) sector without any problem. But hdd seems to be
    > wroking in
    > CHS mode any way.
    >
    > Any ideas?
    >
    > rik
    >
    > Søren Schmidt wrote:
    >
    >> Roman Kurakin wrote:
    >>
    >>> Hi,
    >>>
    >>> I have some problems with my HDD (ST380021A). The problem was
    >>> checked on 5.2, 5.2.1, and some
    >>> 5.Current (cvsuped about week or two).
    >>>
    >>> At first I got this problem while system installation. I get trap
    >>> and message from ata after I start a commit:
    >>> FAILURE READ_DMA status=51 <READY, DSC, ERROR> error=10
    >>> <NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=245529601
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> If I read the above modelnumber correctly it is a 80G disk..
    >>
    >> There is only ~160000000 sectors on such a disk, so you cant expect
    >> to read sector 245529601 as its not there :)
    >>
    >> Now why sysinstall tries to do that is beyond me, but could be a
    >> problem with the geometry (it seems to always get it wrong these days).
    >>
    >> -Søren
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