Einar Sundgren wrote:
> As it seems nothing is wrong with hda but on hdb first it takes really long time
> to do the check and then this irq timeout. It occured after that i did a BIOS
> low level format of hdb and has been like that eversince, I have run all fs
> check utilities I know about but none can find the error, the drive is
> mountable and read/write able so the problem is as i said not very big but
> still a problem.
> The drive is a IDE drive manufactured for apple by quantum and i run it on a
> PC, maby the solution is there I don�t even know if that matters i mean it
> still is an IDE drive
As far as I know, IDE drives should not be low level formatted by BIOS. IDE drives
have
on one side of a platter, special signals to align the heads precisely to the desired
cylinder. BIOS will low level format ALL sides, erasing this information. Could this
be
causing your problem? Too late now, but there are programs to non-destructively
low-level
format IDE drives.
William M. Jones
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