[97579] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Seagate 8.4 gig drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Tue Nov 3 20:22:15 1998
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <elazor@hcs.state.or.us>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 20:33:48 -0500
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Ah, the old partition problem...
Ok...
FIRST go into DOS (boot up any DOS disk) and create an ACTIVE dos partition
on each of the drives...
It can be a small partition, as you will delete it later...
For safety sake, format the partition under dos...
Delete it, then install Linux. The Master Boot Record will now correctly
reflect the drive geometry and Linux will correctly employ it from now on...
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Lazor <elazor@hcs.state.or.us>
To: redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 7:35 PM
Subject: Seagate 8.4 gig drive
>I was wondering if someone could help, I have a system with an 8.4 gig
>Seagate drive, an adaptec 2940 UW controller and two Seagate SCSI UW 2gig
>drives. After running the install on the system, the computer reboots,
>gives error messages and prompts to take me into administrator mode.
>
>First issue: The computer's bios doesn't identify the drive geometry
>correctly. I was manually setting it to the settings listed on the drive
of
>16383,16,63 . Is this correct?
>
>Second issue: Linux seems to improperly identify the drive geometry. How
>do I tell it the correct settings?
>
>Third issue: The IDE drive gives a seek error during bootup. Is this
>because of the drive configuration issue?
>
>Fourth issue: There are errors listed from the SCSI drives saying
>block-major-8 not found. What does this mean and how can I fix it?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you could provide :)
>
>-Ed
>
>
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