Chuck Wolber wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Using vanilla 2.6.15.4 on an ASUS P4P800, I have a Maxtor 4A250J0 attached
> to the VT6410 IDE port. It shows up as /dev/hdf and no matter what I do,
> the system believes it is being used and will not format or mount it.
Try configuring the drive as master (hde) and not as
slave-without-a-master (hdf).
>
> Attempting to format the drive (regardless of partition size) gets:
>
> root@bailey:/usr/src/linux# mke2fs -j /dev/hdf1
> mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
> /dev/hdf1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem
> here!
>
> (And yes, I have driven myself batty assuring myself that it is *NOT* in
> fact mounted.)
>
>
> I can override the message and format it anyway with:
>
> root@bailey:/usr/src/linux# mke2fs -j -F /dev/hdf1
> mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
> /dev/hdf1 is apparently in use by the system; mke2fs forced anyway.
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=1024 (log=0)
> Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
> 2000 inodes, 8000 blocks
> 400 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=1
> 1 block group
> 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
> 2000 inodes per group
>
> Writing inode tables: done
> Creating journal (1024 blocks): mke2fs: Device or resource busy
> while trying to create journal
>
>
>
> But then when I dump the filesystem, I get:
>
> root@bailey:/usr/src/linux# dumpe2fs /dev/hdf1
> dumpe2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
> dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdf1
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
>
>
> Clearly nothing was written to the drive...
>
>
> The dmesg output is as follows:
>
> [4294673.024000] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
> [4294673.024000] VP_IDE: VIA vt6410 (rev 06) IDE UDMA133 controller on
> pci0000:02:04.0
> [4294673.024000] VP_IDE: 100% native mode on irq 19
> [4294673.024000] ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings:
> hde:pio, hdf:pio
> [4294673.024000] ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings:
> hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> [4294673.024000] Probing IDE interface ide2...
> [4294673.492000] hdf: Maxtor 4A250J0, ATA DISK drive
> [4294673.543000] ide2 at 0xec00-0xec07,0xe882 on irq 19
> [4294673.543000] hdf: max request size: 1024KiB
> [4294673.554000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
> address 4
> [4294673.573000] hdf: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
> CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(133)
> [4294673.573000] hdf: cache flushes supported
> [4294673.573000] hdf: hdf1
> [4294673.576000] Probing IDE interface ide3...
>
>
>
> The hdparm information on the drive is:
>
> /dev/hdf:
>
> ATA device, with non-removable media
> Model Number: Maxtor 4A250J0
> Serial Number: A809GX2E
> Firmware Revision: RAMB1TV0
> Standards:
> Supported: 7 6 5 4
> Likely used: 7
> Configuration:
> Logical max current
> cylinders 16383 65535
> heads 16 1
> sectors/track 63 63
> --
> CHS current addressable sectors: 4128705
> LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
> LBA48 user addressable sectors: 490234752
> device size with M = 1024*1024: 239372 MBytes
> device size with M = 1000*1000: 251000 MBytes (251 GB)
> Capabilities:
> LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
> Queue depth: 1
> Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific
> minimum
> R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 0
> Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x0000)
> Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 192
> DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
> Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
> PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
> Commands/features:
> Enabled Supported:
> * NOP cmd
> * READ BUFFER cmd
> * WRITE BUFFER cmd
> * Host Protected Area feature set
> * Look-ahead
> * Write cache
> * Power Management feature set
> Security Mode feature set
> * SMART feature set
> * FLUSH CACHE EXT command
> * Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command
> * Device Configuration Overlay feature set
> * 48-bit Address feature set
> * Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
> SET MAX security extension
> Advanced Power Management feature set
> * DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
> * SMART self-test
> * SMART error logging
> Security:
> Master password revision code = 65534
> supported
> not enabled
> not locked
> not frozen
> not expired: security count
> not supported: enhanced erase
> HW reset results:
> CBLID- above Vih
> Device num = 1 determined by the jumper
> Checksum: correct
>
>
>
>
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