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Hi!

I have a weird problem. Just bought a brand new system with a 
2.5Gb Eide drive. This drive works apparently fine under dos, passing even
all ndd tests. Under linux, anyhow, I can't install at all, and
I keep getting errors like these:

hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=0/0/0, sector 0
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^
Of course I did try to give the disk geometry to the OS loader, but
with no luck at all :( Seems that there is no way for the kernel to
talk to the disk and get the geometry (even if during boot messages
the disk is found with the correct geom...). Also, I tried every possible
combination of LBA/Normal/Large.

Any suggestion? My concern right now is that I can't see 
how can I return the disk to my vendor (assuming it's broken), since 
it works under dos... 

E-mail replies are of course most appreciated :)

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Gianugo Rabellino
(per i linuxiani italici, ebbene si, sono pigro :))