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Re: Linux (SCSI) Installation Woes...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Apr 2 11:25:40 1997

Date: 	Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:20:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "F. Woodbridge" <fwoodbri@oe.fau.edu>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199704021432.AA05312@oe.fau.edu>

On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, F. Woodbridge wrote:

> Everything's fine in the booting up process until the following:
> 
> scsi: detected 1 SCSI cdrom 4 SCSI disks 1 SCSI tape
> sda: unsupported sector size 620756992
> scsi: deleting disk entry
> sdb: unsupported sector size 620756992
> scsi: deleting disk entry
...
> The process hangs there.  So, here are my questions:
> What is the matter, essentially?  I think it's because the drives aren't
> supported? Forgive me for being foolish but what can I do about this?
> I'd appreciate greatly  any help I am able to get.

I'd be tempted to boot DOS and try low level formatting the
disks...especially if they're still under warranty :)

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