On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Konstantin Boldyshev wrote:
> I have two IDE hard drives - hda(WD 13GB) and hdb(WD 2GB), and also a CD as
> hdd.
Are you using an extremely broken IDE controller or something? The
messages would seem to indicate the disk (or controller) can't handle
being turned to 32-bit IO mode with DMA transfers.
> But if I proceed, and get to dialog with choice of Disk Druid and fdisk and
> choose Disk Druid - install tells me that partition table on hdb is broken
> and asks me whether to initialize it or not. And this is true - partition
> table on hdb is really broken at this time (first 4 sectors are zeroes!)
> However i can reinitialize it and proceed with installation and even install
> mandrake on hdb..
If you hadn't tried to write to the disk, I'm quite sure nothing would
have happened to the data.
Maybe it was a bad idea to set the disks to 32bit and dma without asking
the user first; I've tried it on a lot of different systems (including a
486 with a 340MB disk) without ever having similar problems, and there
were no troubles reported in Mariner.
> Anyone wants to try to reproduce this on his machine? :)
Yes - but I can't.
LLaP
bero
