Re: IBM microdrive.

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On Tuesday 19 February 2002 18:34, you wrote:
>[...]
> I agree there's something wrong, but those are the same values
> I see from hdparm -v.  Are you getting any interesting messages
> in /var/log/kern.log?  This is what I see at boot time:
>
> hda: TOSHIBA MK5002MPL, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0xf7000000-0xf7000007,0xf700000e on irq 32
> ide_cs: hda: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
> hda: bad special flag: 0x03
> hda: 9818550 sectors (5027 MB) w/212KiB Cache, CHS=10390/15/63
> Partition check:
>  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2

Which is pretty much what I get:

cardmgr[29]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
cardmgr[29]: executing: 'modprobe ide-cs'
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
h3600_dual_sleeve_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=33 vpp=0 reset=0 
h3600_dual_sleeve_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=33 vpp=0 reset=0
Trying to free nonexistent resource <f6000000-f600000f>
hda: TOSHIBA MK5002MPL, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xf6000000-0xf6000007,0xf600000e on irq 42
ide_cs: hda: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
cardmgr[29]: executing: './ide start hda'
hda: bad special flag: 0x03
[more boot sequence here]
hda: 9818550 sectors (5027 MB) w/212KiB Cache, CHS=10390/15/63
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:01) ...                         
  
[...]
> Our local PC guru says he tried a 100Mb card in his iPAQ under CE and
> got
> only a slight improvement over 10Mb.  He chalked it up to either the
> PCMCIA bus
> lacking throughput, the CPU just being too slow, or both.  He thinks the
> iPAQ
> has an old-style PCMCIA bus, not the newer Cardbus design.

I'm pretty sure that the iPAQ doesn't have any CardBus support at all, which 
would explain it not recognising mine. Your friend's could well have been a 
non-CardBus ethernet card; you can get them, but it's rare.

[...]
> Dunno.  Perhaps one of the Intimate developers could comment?  It's
> been years since I felt much need to mess with a kernel, much less
> one on an experimental contraption like an iPAQ.  :-)

I tried, and it was missing lots of drivers. But I found 2.4.17-rmk2, which I 
was building until it hung on me, so I think now I will go home and continue 
tomorrow.

I must say, I know why you decided on reiserfs...

- -- 
David Given
[email protected]

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