Hi there, my apologies should anyone feel that this question is very off-topic, but I can find no solution to it:
I have an IDE hard disk as a secondary master, and an IomegaZip drive (also IDE) as a secondary slave. Both seem to be recognized and detected by the BIOS, and even detected by Linux at booting... although with some error messages. When I switch the terminal on, just before the Lilo: prompt line, I get the following: System Configurations ... Pri. Master Disk: LBA ,Mode 4, 1280MB Pri. Slave Disk: None Sec. Master Disk: CHS ,Mode 3, 545MB Sec. Slave Disk: None ... PCI device listing Bus no. Device no. Func.no. VendorID DevID DevClass IRQ 0 7 1 8086 7010 IDEController 14 0 11 0 5333 8811 DisplayContr 9 --- In my BIOS, in the Standard CMOS Setup, there's the following info configured: type size cyls head precomp landz sector mode ... Sec. Master User 545 1057 16 65535 1056 63 NORMAL So, the disk drive is recognized up to that point, or so I believe. But if I try to make a 'fdisk": (With Linux fdisk) FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive Press any key to exit fdisk (With DOS fdisk) No fixed disk present Now these are the Linux starting messages: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 ide-floppy: Can't get drive capability hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096kBps, 512 sector size, 2941rpm hdc:hdc: read_intr: error=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequestError } hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=0, sector=0 end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Has anyone had this problem? Could anyone help me with it? Is there any solution, or should I try a Low Level Format? What could be the consequence of formatting at low level from the BIOS? Thank you in advance, -------------------------------------------------- El hombre-masa actual es, en efecto, un primitivo, que por los bastidores se ha deslizado en el viejo escenario de la civilizaciĆ³n. Ortega y Gasset - La RebeliĆ³n de las Masas. -------------------------------------------------- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]