On 2007-11-02, joe <jcharth@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello I put a EIDE drive on my server. I got these messages. Should i > flash the bios, upgrade the kernel? any ideas. thanks > > Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS > settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio > Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: , ATA DISK drive > Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver. > Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: set_geometry_intr: status=0x51 > { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: set_geometry_intr: error=0x04 > { DriveStatusError } > Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: 0 sectors (0 MB), CHS=0/0/0 > Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: INVALID GEOMETRY: 0 PHYSICAL HEADS? > Either the drive or the BIOS or the partition table is messed up, or maybe the kernel; try a live CD, or an older kernel if you have one. Can you do "fdisk -l /dev/hda"? (from the live CD). Does it show all zeros or nonsense, or just fail to run?

On 2007-11-08, joe <jcharth@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the help this was a wired problem. I had to switch the > cable, I guess the cable i was using was 100 instead of 133. Also I > ended up putty the hardisk on hda instead of hdc. there was a boot > parameter ide-scsi=/dev/hdc and it was preventing my hardisk from > working. everything works now. > ide-scsi is a driver for CD/DVD burners and I think it is deprecated now. Just in case you want to add another hard drive or CD/DVD drive in the future.