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RE: Seagate 8.4 gig drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Lazor)
Wed Nov 4 14:25:22 1998
From: "Ed Lazor" <elazor@hcs.state.or.us>
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:23:35 -0000
In-Reply-To: <199811041232.HAA00768@tutus.voyager.net>
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Ok, that didn't work but it was worth a try. I went in and created dos
partitions on all three drives that were 15megs in size. During the
process, I noticed that DOS only saw 504megs of drive space - ie. the 1024
cyl. limit). I booted from the linux boot disk and went into the install,
tried things again and it didn't work. I tried to collect as much
information as possible. Here's what I've noticed:
- Every time I've booted, I can do alt-f4 and I'll see the error message:
4> Partition check
4> hda:hda: set_multmode: status=0X51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
4> hda: set_multmode: error=0X04 { DriveStatusError }
- If I let the system bios autodetect the hard drive, I get into fdisk
and find that it thinks there are 1024 cyl, 255 heads, 63 sect.
- If I manually set the drive geometry in bios to 16383,16,63, I get into
fdisk and find that it thinks that there are 16676 cyl, 16 heads, 63
sectors.
- When 1st booting off of the floppy, at the boot: prompt I tried typing in:
linux hda=16383,16,63
vmlinux hda=16363,16,63
linux ide1=16383,16,63
None of those seemed to help.
Any ideas?
Also, I was curious, I did finally buy the 5.1 package to make sure I was
using a valid
copy. I signed up for Red Hat's support, posted a trouble ticket yesterday
and haven't
received a responce. Does anyone know how long they usually take to turn
around a responce?
-Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael George [mailto:georges@voyager.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 12:33 PM
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Seagate 8.4 gig drive
> 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...
I've run into this before, but I didn't realize that I could delete the
partitions after a successful boot.
I'm sure this is a dumb question, but does anyone know why this problem
occurs
and why does this "fix" it?
-Michael
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