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nemorino@svpop.com.dist.unige.it (Gianugo Rabellino) wrote:


>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 :)

Hi 
 I have the same problem 

TIA for help