----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] fdisk error, interesting.
> 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.
>
And it could be a translation problem. Are you using LBA? What CHS does your
BIOS have? What does WD say it should be? You can set the CHS manu7ally at
boot with a LILO command like hda=2256,16,65. I have to do this with a
Maxtor 8.4 GB drive because of translation issues.
Hoyt
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