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Title: Microdrives On 2.4.18 Kernel
Post by: hvontres on December 07, 2005, 02:41:46 pm
I was wondering if anyone out there has a microdrive working on a 2.4.18 Kernel. I am wondering if there may be some bugs in the 2.4.18 line that got fixed in 2.4.20 (as used on the C-XXXX Clamshells). I Keep getting the folowing error:
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Dec  7 18:43:48 poodle user.warn kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec  7 18:43:48 poodle user.err kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
Dec  7 18:43:48 poodle user.warn kernel: ide0: reset: master: error (0x00?)
Any hints?  

Thanks for your help,
Title: Microdrives On 2.4.18 Kernel
Post by: jerrybme on December 07, 2005, 05:20:07 pm
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I was wondering if anyone out there has a microdrive working on a 2.4.18 Kernel. I am wondering if there may be some bugs in the 2.4.18 line that got fixed in 2.4.20 (as used on the C-XXXX Clamshells). I Keep getting the folowing error:
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Dec  7 18:43:48 poodle user.warn kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec  7 18:43:48 poodle user.err kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
Dec  7 18:43:48 poodle user.warn kernel: ide0: reset: master: error (0x00?)
Any hints? 

Thanks for your help,
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I'm using a Hitachi 2 gig microdrive on pdaXrom which uses the 2.4.18 kernel without any problems  (perhaps there are patches applied that I'm not aware of)

Good luck
Title: Microdrives On 2.4.18 Kernel
Post by: hvontres on December 08, 2005, 11:23:45 am
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I'm using a Hitachi 2 gig microdrive on pdaXrom which uses the 2.4.18 kernel without any problems  (perhaps there are patches applied that I'm not aware of)

Good luck
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Are you using ext2 or fat on your drive?
Title: Microdrives On 2.4.18 Kernel
Post by: Greg2 on December 08, 2005, 12:20:55 pm
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I was wondering if anyone out there has a microdrive working on a 2.4.18 Kernel.
This made me curios so I just placed my old 340MB ibm (FAT16) in my poodle with OZ 3.5.4-rc with no problems.

I see from your sig that you have a 5GB (ext2/swap)? Maybe it's something about the new pcmcia-applet?

Greg
Title: Microdrives On 2.4.18 Kernel
Post by: jerrybme on December 08, 2005, 01:01:34 pm
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Are you using ext2 or fat on your drive?
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fat
Title: Microdrives On 2.4.18 Kernel
Post by: DrWowe on December 08, 2005, 02:22:10 pm
Was your 5 gig microdrive pulled out of an MP3 player, or other OEM device?

If so, that would explain it.
Title: Microdrives On 2.4.18 Kernel
Post by: hvontres on December 13, 2005, 11:07:23 am
Well, edited my fstab to only mount /dev/hda1 as read-only and it seems to be working.If I try to mount it rw the write errors eventually cause crashes with either ext2 or fat32...  
 I found some references to 2.4.18 screwing up HD's in desktops way back when it was new, so I think this may be related. So for now I am using it to turn my Z into a better i-pod    (which is what I bought the drive for anyways...)