EIDE problems with a 1.2Gb HD !!!!!

by <spartaco> » Sat, 09 Sep 1995 04:00:00

I've a $(& DX4 100 Mhz with a 1.2 Gb COnner HD. I've had some problems
installing Linux. I solved them by setting manually to FALSE the LBA option on
my BIOS (AMI). I've the first two partition of 400 Mb, the third of 270 Mb and
the fourth of 170 Mb.
My problem is that everytime I want switch my OS from Linux to Dos, I must
change, on My BIOS, the LBA option. All my HD is Dos formatted and I wouldn't
to change it in a Linux partition. Can I have Dos and Linux on my machine and
use one of them without setting everytime - No LBA - on my BIOS ?
THX.

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1. HELP 1,2GB EIDE HD with old 386

I need help, I have an old 386 which was given to me and I have
absolutely no documentation about it. I also have a 1,2GB EIDE HD
(Conner CFS1275A) which I'd like to put into my 386 for use with
Linux. I'm currently using Linux from a 125MB Seagate HD.

I've tried many settings in the BIOS, but it never worked. When the PC
boots, it waits for about 1 minute, then it says : "D: disk failure"
or "HDD controller failure", and "Press <F1> to resume"

If I press F1 and boot Linux from my 125MB disk, when it tries to talk
to the 1,2GB drive, it says :

hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
ide0: do_ide_reset: success
hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
ide0: do_ide_reset: success
hdb: DRDY error: status = 0x00 { }
end_request: I/O error, dev 0340, sector 0
hdb: unexpected_intr: status=0x00 { }
unable to read partition table of device 0340

Normally, the 125MB HD is the master and the 1,2GB one the slave. I've
tried to reverse this, but I can't even boot in this case.

Is there a chance that it would work with a new HD controller ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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