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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