by Is it OK to use the EIDE drive in the Toshiba Laptops
for Linux and DOS?
I was able to make two part-ions, hda1 (250m) and hda2 (525m), using
hda1 for DOS. I had no problem loading linux, lilo, etc,
and getting the whole thing working, including
running of an X server. The DOS "TSETUP" command was set
to use EIDE and a CPU cache write-back option.
Then I loaded the kernel source (1.1.59) to try to recompile
the kernel to help with a mouse problem. But I ran into some
major system problems that appear to be flaky hardware problems
when running gcc or related programs. I then found a number of missing
files in the linux source. I then changed the
CPU cache write-back option to "disable", and rebooted.
This allowed the reloading of the kernel source to work OK, and
the missing files were loaded correctly. However, the BogoMips rating
dropped to 3 from 30! additionally, the kernel source will
still not compile, and the gcc compiler would crash.
I am not including the error messages, as they were long, and
not particularly enlightening, but it appears to be a hardware
and/or disk controller problem.
I did try to TSETUP the disk to IDE mode, but then lilo wouldn't boot.
I am going to try the suggestions in EIDE.txt to see
if this will help, but I wanted to see
if anyone had already configured a T4900CT for linux/DOS,
or was running into this problem with the Toshiba.
My configuration is shown below.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
thanks,
Dave fannin
pacific bell
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Toshiba T4900CT Laptop (Pentium)
24M memory
EIDE Drive (880 Mbytes)
Display Color LCD (C&T 65xxx driver)
PCMCIA slots (2)
Accupoint Mouse (fingertouch mouse in keyboard)
Slackware 2.1 Pro w/IDE kernel (1.1.59)
/dev/mouse set to "/dev/psaux"
XFree86 3.1 (Server is 3.1.1 SVGA)