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Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 45

Problem with faulty hard-disk

I have a faulty hard disk that I cannot remove at all due to some setup restrains. I disabled it in BIOS and it boots fine in a Microsoft OS. However on Archlinux, the kernel spews every time this boot sequence :

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

Then it boots normally without trouble at all. The only problem is that it takes almost a minute to boot up. How can I disable this ata1.01 completly from the kernel?

Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 45

Re: Problem with faulty hard-disk

So ... can anyone help?

erm67

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 123

Re: Problem with faulty hard-disk

Try booting arch fallback passing the option hdb=noprobe hdb=none.
I don't know how to disable a disk with libata but it should be possible too. Why don't you just detach the ide cable from the disk?

Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 45

Re: Problem with faulty hard-disk

Try booting arch fallback passing the option hdb=noprobe hdb=none.
I don't know how to disable a disk with libata but it should be possible too. Why don't you just detach the ide cable from the disk?

Tried this option, it does not work, I presume I must use libata. The IDE cable I cannot detach, for it is some awkward setup, if I detach it I will have no master and only slave for my other 2 dvdwriters. It's a weird machine, last night found chips inside it, inbetween the RAM, and my graphics card is glued with nailcolor ... we've been through many wars together lol.