trouble with HDD

["Horacio M.G." <homega@vlc.servicom.es>]

Hi there,

my apologies should anyone feel that this question is very off-topic,
but I can find no solution to it:

I have an IDE hard disk as a secondary master, and an IomegaZip
drive (also IDE) as a secondary slave.  Both seem to be recognized
and detected by the BIOS, and even detected by Linux at
booting... although with some error messages.

When I switch the terminal on, just before the Lilo: prompt line, I
get the following:

   System Configurations
...
Pri. Master Disk: LBA ,Mode 4, 1280MB
Pri. Slave Disk: None
Sec. Master Disk: CHS ,Mode 3, 545MB
Sec. Slave Disk: None
...

PCI device listing
Bus no.  Device no.  Func.no.  VendorID  DevID  DevClass       IRQ
0            7               1              8086       7010
IDEController 14 0            11              0             5333      8811
   DisplayContr  9

---

In my BIOS, in the Standard CMOS Setup, there's the following
info configured:

                    type  size  cyls  head  precomp  landz  sector  mode
...
Sec. Master  User  545   1057 16     65535      1056   63  NORMAL

So, the disk drive is recognized up to that point, or so I believe.
But if I try to make a 'fdisk":

(With Linux fdisk)
FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive
Press any key to exit fdisk

(With DOS fdisk)
No fixed disk present

Now these are the Linux starting messages:

Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0
ide-floppy: Can't get drive capability
hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096kBps, 512 sector size, 2941rpm
 hdc:hdc: read_intr: error=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequestError }
hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=0,
sector=0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 0
     unable to read partition table


Has anyone had this problem?  Could anyone help me with it?  Is
there any solution, or should I try a Low Level Format?  What could
be the consequence of formatting at low level from the BIOS?

Thank you in advance,



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Horacio
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