Alistair . (apopple@hotmail.com)
Tue, 01 Feb 2000 18:18:23 EST
Hi, I have recently bought an external enclosure for a HDD. This uses the
shuttle tech EPEZ chipset and connects on and ECP parrallel port (my laptop
only supports ECP or Std. Bi-Direct but the results are the same using
either mode) running RedHat 6.0 (Kernel 2.2.5). The drive functions
corretly in the enclosure under DOS and Windows. The problem is is that it
isn't reading the drive geometry correctly.
The drive succesfully completed a low-level format in another computer and
is corretly partitioned and formated. Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks.
Below is the output from the modules:
[[root@laptop misc]# modprobe epat.o
paride: version 1.04 installed
paride: epat registered as protocol 0
[[root@laptop misc]# insmod pd drive0=0x378,0
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation.
pda: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
pda: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c5 at 0x378, mode 0 (4-bit), delay 1
pda: , master, 452874240 blocks [221130M], (65488/65488/65488), removable
media
pda:pda: do_pd_read_drq: status = 0x459 = ERR DRQ SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x459 = ERR DRQ SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x459 = ERR DRQ SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x459 = ERR DRQ SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x459 = ERR DRQ SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x459 = ERR DRQ SEEK READY ABRT
end_request: I/O error, dev 2d:00 (PD), sector 0
unable to read partition table
If I increase the delay to 50 the geometry and model name is correct but the
results are the same. Here is the output:
[[root@laptop misc]# insmod pd drive0=0x378,0,0,0,-1,0,1,50
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
pda: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
pda: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c5 at 0x378, mode 0 (4-bit), delay 1
pda: WDC AC1270F, slave, 528192 blocks [257M], (917/12/48), fixed media
pda:pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
end_request: I/O error, dev 2d:00 (PD), sector 0
unable to read partition table
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