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If anyone emailed a reply to me over the weekend or yesterday, I'm
afraid your mail got deleted by my server before I got to it. Could
you please resend.
If you have any ideas what is causing this, I desperately need to
know. BTW, this was with both version 1.2.47 (?) and 1.3.?? of the
kernal.

c.canterford@cs.net.au (Conrad Canterford) wrote:

>Hi,
>I recently purchased a 1.0 Gb Fujitsu IDE drive, and added it to my
>system. I partitioned it under DOS to use the first 500Mb for DOS,
>with intent to use the rest for LINUX.

>When I boot Linux, I get the following error during the boot partition
>check (and also if I try to use the linux fdisk on it):

>hda:  hda1 hda2 <hda5>
>hdb:  hdb: recal_intr: status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hdb:  recal_intr: status = 0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound }
>hdb:  hdb: recal_intr: status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hdb:  recal_intr: status = 0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound }
>ide0: do_ide_reset: success
>hdb:  hdb: recal_intr: status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hdb:  recal_intr: status = 0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound }
>hdb:  hdb: recal_intr: status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hdb:  recal_intr: status = 0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound }
>ide0: do_ide_reset: success
>hdb:  hdb: recal_intr: status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hdb:  recal_intr: status = 0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound }
>end_request: I/O error, dev 0340, sector 0
>  unable to read partition table.

>This drive does work perfectly under DOS. I have tried various bios
>configurations to try and fool Linux as described in the InfoMagic
>Quickstart guide, but they do not solve the problem.

>This is a new installation of Linux (it was previously on an old
>harddisk that I removed), so I cannot even make a custom kernal at
>this point. Can someone PLEASE tell me what I have to do to convince
>this thing to work??????????

>(If replying to the newsgroup, please email me a copy. My connection
>to this news-server is somewhat erratic).

>Thanks,
>Conrad.
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Supply, service and support of great computer products.

President Computers A.C.T. (President.Computers@cs.net.au)
Phone/Fax: Australia (06) 258 0766
Mobile:              018 481199
Snail Mail:          P.O. Box 1773, Tuggeranong, ACT, 2615
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