Since you have Windows, the first thing I would do is d/l the diagnostic utility (PowerMax) from the Maxtor web site and run that. (Actually, you run the downloaded program that then creates a boot disk...)
It may be co-incidence, but I just got the same drive for my father (at least it was a 120G maxtor)--and proceded to fsck around with it for two weeks before realizing that it was a piece of junk... (BTW, beware of target-sale.com--I've been pestering them for an RMA# for a week now and gotten absolutely no response...) HTH, -Jason On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:00 pm, Wolf N. Paul wrote: > I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk > working on my Mdk 9.0 system. > > When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs > indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk > was virginal from the store, and now that I have created > a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. > > If I append "hdh=noprobe" to the boot prompt, I can > boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. > > If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the > drive just before the partition check, like so: > > "hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe" > > which corresponds to an example in the kernel source > Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing > happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec > sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. > > The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference > at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter > of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. > > Any hints? Any ideas? > > Regards, > > Wolf N. Paul > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ========================= 'Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha. 'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om. (Small Gods)
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