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On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Tam Weng Seng wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I apologize for disapearing off the face of the Earth, but my
> machine is down with a hard disk failure. To make matters worse, my root
> partition was on it ... Anyhow, I have mangaged to purchase a new IDE
> controller and hard disk. Sadly, the controller seems to be causing the
> install floppy to fail, so I am going to try a different IDE controller.

Sounds like a problem I had, until I disabled LBA disk translation in the 
BIOS.  If LBA was on, I'd get a read error trying to boot the boot disk.  I 
have no clue what the relationship is.  Hope that helps.