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From: "Lawrence Sica" <lomifeh@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Possibly another RC2 ATA problem.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <jacks@sage-american.com>
To: "FreeBSD Stable" <fbsdstable@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us>;
<FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Possibly another RC2 ATA problem.


> 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.)

Did you use dangerously dedicated on that drive when you set it up?  I have
had it happen to me on a drive because of that.

--Larry


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