I had the same sort of problem with a Seagate St38641A and Venus. I suspected the
ideGetDevives() but your experience points to a different function. I will
continue to study the sources with diff and egrep to see if I can find anything
useful.
Thanks for the "heads up".
Civileme
Kuraiken wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I've tried to re-install Venus in the seagate drive which I had a running
> (fresh) install of Festen. And...it still does not work. At install time, after
> choosing "server" default install, it gives me this error:
>
> An error occurred while reading the partition table for the block device hda.
> The error was input/output error. [retry or skip drive]
>
> Incidentally, this input/output error was the same cascading errors I wrote
> about in the previous mail...
>
> Is there anymore information that would be useful? Thanks.
>
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