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I have a faulty hard-disk that for setup-reasons, I caanot remove at all. I disabled it in BIOS, everything works fine (even windows boots) however the linux arch kernel, during install process refuses to boot indicating an xfer 0x51 to ata and hangs. I booted with ide-legacy option however the same thing happends when he tries to scan for hdb. Is there a way to omit for good and for all the hdb probing in the kernel? I cannot install Arch at all due to this problem.
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So, is there a way to disable this hdb right from the bootup? I used the Gimmick distro, it gave me the error, but it allowed me to continue the setup ... what should I do? I could not find a bootup options list for Archlinux.
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There's a kernel parameter you can pass: hdb=none, and also hdb=noprobe.
I've used the first one successfully, you can use both together too though.
I think there's a way to pass kernel parameters when you begin setup, but it's been a while since I've done a scratch
install so I can't remember exactly how, in grub you just add the parameters to the end of the kernel line.
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I installed Arch sucessfully, your command did not worked, but now on bootup I get this stuff for 30 seconds. It works normally but it's annoying. Can I turn it off?
ata1.01: ata_hpa_resize 1: hpa sectors (0) is smaller than sectors (40021444)
ata1.01: ATA-6: Maxtor ATHENA, WAH21PBZ, max UDMA/100
ata1.01: 40021444 sectors, multi 0: LBA
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x1)
ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
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There's a kernel parameter you can pass: hdb=none, and also hdb=noprobe.
Presumably if using pata, these should be sdb=none and sdb=noprobe.
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I think you can also use hdb(or sdb)=none(or noprobe) on the arch kernel at boot (someone will probably correct me if not). You can do this by adding it to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
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