From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Thu Mar 25 23:50:28 2004 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:45:47 +0100 (CET) From: Standa Opichal To: Frank Naumann cc: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] [Aranym-user] AHDI Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4056E997.70108@ddm.no> <1079434385.11043.66.camel@joy.sophics> <200403181600.05431.h.robbers@chello.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: opichals@seznam.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Frank Naumann wrote: > Hello! > > > > > BTW: Taking the message literally... "AHDI 3.0 not supported on this > > > > system, please update.". Why FreeMiNT simply dosn't do halt instead of > > > > running further. > > > > > > Why should FreeMiNT halt? > > > > Frank, read the warning message again. "NOT SUPPORTED". This ussually > > means that it can't work at all. > > No, this message just means that you use an harddisc driver that even > don't support the AHDI 3.0 standard. E.g. there is no reliable way to > lookup the maximum sector size (information in the puninfo structure). Ok, so what about this: "PUN cookie (from AHDI >=3.0) not found on this system, system may have problems with the maximum sector size calculation." I met this problem when using HDDriver 7.? that gave me wrong size for 2GB FAT partition and I got error messages after boot. But user can't say that this is the reason for such messages (unless he goes into the sources). best regards STan