🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 16 May 1998 00:34:50 +0100, Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Linux won't talk to my Promise caching IDE controller (VLB) that I just got
>to upgrade my main Linux box.  I have put 4Mb of RAM on it and it works
>fine in Win95 with no modifications.
>
>Linux though refuses to mount the file system (I think the error was 'read
>beyond end of device' or something similar).
>
>There is not a specific kernel (I think).
>
>Slackware 3.something with 2.0.0 kernel.

What size is the hard disk ?? Is it over 1GB ?? If so, this may be
something to do with LBA (Logical Block Addressing) used to map
drives with >1024 blocks so that the BIOS can address all of the
disk. IME, sometimes Linux [1] gets (very) confused over this if what
the BIOS tells it and what the partition table tells it disagree.

That's the first thing I'd investigate. But maybe there are known
problems with the Promise controller - someone with that knowledge
may be along soon.

[1] Or me. Or both of us.

-- 
Mike Pellatt