On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dana J. Laude wrote:
> Here's a interesting snip after running "fdisk /dev/hdb".
>
> <clip>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1247. There is
> nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could
> in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at
> boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from
> other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error } hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=15390270, sector=15390270 end_request: I/O error, dev
> 03:40 (hdb), sector 15390270
> Unable to read /dev/hdb
> </clip>
>
> This is a WD 10GB drive, EIDE btw. I also tried fdisk from
> Win98,
> and it wouldn't do anything but hang forever. Personally, I
> think
> it's hosed. Any ideas welcome. Just a FYI, but I've tried all
> of
> the normal things, like making it a primary, cable, power, and
> even
> a new motherboard. (I was going to upgrade soon anyway;)
>
If you're worried about the fitness of the drive, go to Western Dig's
site, download wddiag.exe, boot DOS and run it. It will perform a rather
exhaustive check and report back via a numeric code the status of your
drive. If it needs replacing, it will tell you. Thank goodness that WD's
drives all carry a 3 year warranty. Any further questions? Check out
www.wdc.com.
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