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- John Lagrue writes:
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- > I am using ICS IDE card with 2x 1Gb drives, partitioned into 6 logical
- > drives all smaller than 512Mb. RiscPC 600, RISC OS 3.5
- >--cut--
-
- > When I first try running the !linux app with the -bootkernel switch
- > with the rpc kernel that I retrieved from the ARM Linux pages it seems
- > to start up OK, but then goes off trying to find the hda and hdb
- > harddiscs, and never gets any further than slowly reporting that
- > they don't appear to be answering some irq requests; it does however
- > correctly identify the discs.
-
- This is a known problem, and a fax has been sent to Baildon Electronics.
- However, since I don't have an ICS interface card, I can't debug it. The
- obvious problems have been fixed to the docs that Baildon supplied, but it
- still doesn't work, and I don't know why. I am waiting a reply.
-
- > It does not however recognise that they have been partitioned.
- > Which leads me to my second worry:
-
- > When I run !PartMan, I specify the IDEFS partition 7, and have to
- > enter the geometry as given to me by fsck. Fsck gives me the disc
- > size in bytes, so !PartMan gets the logical disc size correct as
- > 500Mb, with Sector size 512, heads 16, sectors 63 after I tell it
- > that this must mean 1016 tracks. However, though it shows me the
- > partition with start sector 0, end sector 1024127, it won't actually
- > let me do anything. The 'New' menu option does not do anything at
- > all. I presume that this is because it realises that the partition
- > covers the whole logical disc, but I cannot see how to alter that.
-
- It may be possible to use the ICS partitioning scheme - in other words,
- use ICS partition manager to setup a two new partitions at the end of
- the disk (and when the Linux kernel works with the ICS IDE card properly)
- reformat these partitions to be ext2 and swap. I have no idea what
- ICS IDEFS will make of them though.
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