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From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au>
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Subject: Re: More on IDE Problem
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I installed no worries on an IDE HDD. Are you sure your problem is with the IDE? 

andrew perry
andrew@shoal.net.au

Michael Lay wrote:
> 
> Well, I have tried to install on two different 400Mg HD's now with no luck.
> One was a Conner and the other was a Western Digital.  I traded out the IDE
> CD-ROM for a SCSI CD-ROM.  It is now a tiny bit more consistent about where
> it fails.  It completes the NEWFS and starts to unpack data.  It then fails
> saying it wrote -1 bytes.  It asks if I want to try again.  Even if I say yes,
> it traps a fatal error and starts to re-boot the system.  Could someone who has
> actually installed this on a system with IDE HD's let me in on the secret??!!
> 
>        Michael Lay
>        N5PTN
>        Pflugerville, Texas
>