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- From: sander@kozmix.hacktic.nl (Sander van Malssen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Kalok 3100
- Message-ID: <0cT3PB1w165w@kozmix.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:01:32 MET
- References: <15850@star.cs.vu.nl>
- Organization: Kozmic Egg Productions
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- jwromei@cs.vu.nl (John Romein) writes:
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- > Can anyone send me the right WPcom and LZone values of the Kalok 3100 ?
- > I cannot get Linux work properly with this disk (I often get the message
- > 'HD timeout - HD-controller reset' and occasionally 'Unexpected HD interrupt'
- > and was wondering weather this drive is bad or if I set these values wrongly
- > (at the moment both zero) My Seagate ST-157A works without problems but is
- > too small and a little slow.
- >
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- They should be 65536 for WPcom and 979 for LZone, but I don't think that
- is going to solve everything. When I had the same hd I got the same
- messages (though usually the second, rarely the first). They're pretty
- harmless, but if they annoy you, simply comment them out in
- kernel/blk_drv/hd.c and recompile the kernel.
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- Bye!
- Sander
-
- = Linux or bust! =
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