Ok, large drive support works fine on Debian 3.0 mips. This is good news…. you can check out the dmesg output below.
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\nCPU revision is: 000028a0
\nFPU revision is: 000028a0
\nPrimary instruction cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes.
\nPrimary data cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes.
\nLinux version 2.4.18 (root@qube) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #2 Fri May 31 17:40:33 BST 2002
\nDetermined physical RAM map:
\n memory: 10000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
\nOn node 0 totalpages: 65536
\nzone(0): 65536 pages.
\nzone(1): 0 pages.
\nzone(2): 0 pages.
\nKernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=\/dev\/hda1
\nCalibrating delay loop… 249.85 BogoMIPS
\nMemory: 255944k\/262144k available (1243k kernel code, 6200k reserved, 160k data, 76k init, 0k highmem)
\nDentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
\nInode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
\nMount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
\nBuffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
\nPage-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
\nChecking for ‘wait’ instruction… available.
\nPOSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
\nPCI: Probing PCI hardware
\nCobalt Board ID: 6
\nActivating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
\nLinux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
\nBased upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
\nInitializing RT netlink socket
\nStarting kswapd
\nJournalled Block Device driver loaded
\npty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
\nCobalt LCD Driver v2.10
\nSerial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
\nttyS00 at 0xc800000 (irq = 7) is a ST16650V2
\nrtc: SRM (post-2000) epoch (2000) detected
\nReal Time Clock Driver v1.10e
\nblock: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
\nUniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
\nide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
\nVP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 49
\nPCI: Enabling device 00:09.1 (0285 0280)
\nVP_IDE: chipset revision 6
\nVP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
\nide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
\nVP_IDE: VIA vt82c586a (rev 27) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:09.1
\n ide0: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
\n ide1: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
\nhda: ST360015A, ATA DISK drive
\nhdb: ST360015A, ATA DISK drive
\nhdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffefa)
\nhdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffefa)
\nhdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffefa)
\nhdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffefa)
\nide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
\nhda: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w\/2048KiB Cache, CHS=116301\/16\/63
\nhdb: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w\/2048KiB Cache, CHS=116301\/16\/63
\nPartition check:
\n hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
\n hdb: unknown partition table
\nLinux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001)
\nPCI: Enabling device 00:07.0 (0045 0280)
\ntulip0: Old format EEPROM on ‘Cobalt MicroServer’ board. Using substitute media control info.
\ntulip0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
\ntulip0: Index #0 – Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
\ntulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
\neth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0x100000, 00:10:E0:00:E9:84, IRQ 4.
\nNET4: Linux TCP\/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
\nIP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
\nIP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
\nTCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
\nVFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
\nFreeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
\nNET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0\/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
\nAdding Swap: 262576k swap-space (priority -1)
\neth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 41e1.
\n hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
\n hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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