[ale] lilo question(s)

[handran at mindspring.com]

If someone could help me with any of the following, I would be 'most'
greatful!

Problem 1:	When I (re)install lilo I get the following error msg:

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ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc
ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts MAKEDEV.ide
Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
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This msg repeats three times. I can, in fact, access /dev/hdc though (?)
I have ran /usr/src/linux/scripts MAKEDEV.ide and as far as I can tell all
it does is remake all the ide devices that were already there to begin with
(same major/minor etc.) 
This does not fix the problem (error msg every time I reinstall lilo).

The system I have is as follows: 
90Mhz intel Pentium
Trition I chipset on a microstar mother board
pci ide interfaces (two) built onto mother board
96M ram
four (4) ide hard drives (linux installed on fourth drive (/dev/hdd))
/dev/hda= 2.1G W/D Caviar (1 vfat partition)
/dev/hdb= 2.1G W/D Caviar (1 vfat partition)
/dev/hdc= 1.2G W/D Caviar (1 vfat partition)
/dev/hdd= 720M W/D Caviar (1 ext2 partition)
Slackware 3.1.0
kernel 2.0.28

dmesg:
hda: WDC AC22100H,  2014MB  w/128kB, Cache, LBA, CHS=1023/64/63, DMA
hdb: WDC AC32100H,  2014MB  w/128kB, Cache, LBA, CHS=1023/64/63, DMA
hdc: WDC AC31200F,  1222MB  w/64kB,  Cache, LBA, CHS=2484/16/63
hdd: WDC AC2700,     696MB  w/128kB, Cache, LBA, CHS=1416/16/63
(there is no reference to 'DMA' for the last two drives (?))

fstab:
/dev/hdd1    /       ext2    defaults    1    1
/dev/hda1    /dosc   vfat    defaults    1    1
/dev/hdb1    /dosd   vfat    defaults    1    1
/dev/hdc1    /dose   vfat    defaults    1    1
none         /proc   proc    defaults    1    1

df:
File system          1024-blocks       Used        Available    Capacity
Mounted on
/dev/hdd1            623094            202826      384587         35%       /
/dev/hda1           2060032            824544     1235488         40%
/dosc
/dev/hdb1           2060032           1244352      815680         60%
/dosd
/dev/hdc1           1249696            446240      803456         36%
/dose
/dev/sonycd          616826            616826           0        100%
/cdrom

As I said earlier, I CAN access /dev/hdc1, but if I do something like 
find / -name *.xpm    it seems to hang once it gets to /dev/hdc1 (hard
drive led goes out and I have to hit cntrl-c to stop the 'find'.)


Problem 2:

I have 96 M of ram but when I do 'free', all linux see's is 64M. I know
about the append="mem=96M" in lilo.conf,  BUT I already have an
append="cdu31a=0x230" for my sony cdu33a cdrom drive and I have discovered
that lilo.conf don't like two append statements! If I comment out the cdrom
append and use the ram append, then linux see's the 96M ram just fine, but
it fails to find my cdrom. I have tried entering these two append
statements in all different places in lilo.conf but it seems to be an
either or situation, either I can see all my ram OR I can see my cdrom, but
not both. Does anyone know of a way of adding both on one append line? If
so please shed some light on it for me. 
Thanx in advance for any help on these two problems!

handran at mindspring.com