Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the large WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like that on the drive to overwrite the system's drive table. Problem is, if you're booting from CD-ROM, the system never get's the chance to read the new drive table from the hard drive. If you think that may be the problem, the solution I've used is to first boot from the hard drive and once the new drive table loads, reboot (without powering off) and put the CD in. The system usually doesn't clear out the new drive table.
Joeb -------Original Message------- From: Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 12/16/02 08:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity > Well it seems that this is more serious than I first thought. I just tried an install to this new WD 180GB drive. Seems there is some limitations to the size of the drive, or the drive is junk. ?? Maybe truly a kernel bug. ? End_request: I/O error, Dev 03:47 (hdb), sector <numerous sectors> Journal-601, buffer write failed Kernel BUG at prints.c:334! invalid operand: 0000 cpu 0 Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've done some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody have any light to shed?
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