> On Friday December 6 2002 07:39 am, RichardA wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to reinstall MDK 8.2, but can't format the drive. My
> > previous installation used ext2, and when it repeatedly got corrupted
> > I assumed I'd broken it. In the install I get as far as formatting
> > the partitions I've defined, but the error comes back:
> >
> > 'An error occurred. Mounting partition /dev/hda1 in directory /mnt
> > failed (invalid argument)'
> >
> > If I do a <ctrl><alt><F4>, I see many lines something like:
> >
> > hda: read_intr: status=0x79 {DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete
> > DataRequest Error}
> > hda: read_intr: error=0x10 {SectorIdNotFound} LBA=nnnnnn...
> > ide0: reset: successMy maxtor 8.4gb drive acted the same way on the stock kernel. I had to append ide=nodma. I suspect it is the SIS5513 chipset on the motherboard, because I dont remember this happening with the old motherboard. After a re-compile things were much better. I believe the kernel option for firmware checks and dma keeps dma from being used on that drive. Jack
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