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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: More on IDE Problem
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, 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.  

At this point, hit ALT-F2 and look for any error messages.  Please send
anything you see, plus your system's specifications.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major