Skipping failing HD detection
Hi,
I have 2 IDE hard drives, hda and hdc. hdc has Linux, hda has Windows 2000 and works fine. However, no matter which Linux distro I use, it will always complain about timeouts at hda and similar errors. This is very annoying because it makes the boot-up process *minutes* because of the errors and retries. So, - Is there a way to specify the kernel "ignore hda when you do the system checking" ? - Has anybody an idea of why this could happen? The disk works apparently fine in Windows, but I have tried all combinations and the error is always on the same disc (interchanging hda-hdb, hda-hdc, etc). It's only 6 Gb, so there is no "bios patch" or similar things that would lead to problems with linux. I could even install Linux on the "failing" disk, but then it wouldn't boot... Thanks in advance |
"- Is there a way to specify the kernel "ignore hda when you do the system checking" ?"
You could try editing /etc/fstab and commenting out the entries for /dev/hda by placing a # at the beginning of each line that describes a hda partition. If you want to use a partition on hda you would have to mount it with the mount command before you access it. "- Has anybody an idea of why this could happen?" The most likely reason it that you don't have the correct driver for that hard drive in your kernel. ___________________________________ Be prepared. Create a LifeBoat CD. http://users.rcn.com/srstites/LifeBo...home.page.html Steve Stites |
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