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Re: trouble with HDD



What kind of motherboard are you using ??
(brand)
Peter Barbera

Horacio M.G. wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
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