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Subject: Re: Possibly another RC2 ATA problem.
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Try running FDISK from the CD-ROM or boot a DOS floppy and run:
FDISK /status
...to see what you have. You could then try to remove the partition(s) and
start over....

At 04:36 PM 1.23.2002 -0600, FreeBSD Stable wrote:
>I tried to load RC2 from the ISO image on a dual-athalon board with
>an IBM Deskstar 60GB.  This was previously running a functioning Red Hat.
>
>I told partition to take the whole drive, gave it some labels to use,
>and told it to take ALL distributions.  When I commited, I quickly got a
>write error from the drive.  (The boot block was NOT protected in the
>BIOS.)
>
>Now the drive is hosed.  The BIOS sees it, the probe sees it (with a
>different geometry), but when I get to Custom/Partition there are no
>disks found.
>
>The BIOS reports:     29437/16/255
>The probe reports:   119150/16/63    (as ad0)
>
>The debug screen shows: DEBUG: Unable to open disk ad0
>
>I have since tried looking at it from the 4.4-R install CD, but it
>looks the same from there.  I cannot talk to the drive from DOS, either.
>
>I would normally think there is just something wrong with the drive,
>but with the other reported ATA problems, and the switch to 48 bits,
>I thought I should mention this.
>
>The motherboard is:          Tyan Thunder K7, V2.07a BIOS.
>The drive reports itself as: IC35L060AVER07-0.
>
>There is no way to set the BIOS to the parameters show above.  It
>autos to LBA mode.
>
>If anyone knows how I might talk to the drive, please let me know.
>
>stu
>fbsdstable@capnet.state.tx.us
>
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

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