Re: 2.5.49: "hdb: cannot handle device with more than 16 heads"

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:50, Eric Buddington wrote:
> This is 2.5.49, compiled for i386 with almost all modules using
> gcc-3.2.  On my PII Omnibook 4100, the messages stop after the first
> hda: message (where it would normally identify the drive). The same
> problem existed in 2.4.48.
> 
> When booting on my Athlon (hda:Maxtor 5T040H4, hdb: Maxtor 90840D6), I
> get the following boot messages:

Looks like you used the old MFM/RLL driver for hda. That wont work with
new drives.