On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:32:42AM -0700, Hodgins Family wrote: > Good morning! > > >I have an old Pentium box, and have two copies of SBM, downloaded at > >diferent times. ONe of them just gives me the message "SBMK" > >and gives up. > > I've had that happen on some of my boxes, too. Never got around to figuring > out what the problem was. > > >The other will only read my CD drive (which is the second drive on > >the second IDE chain if a particular hard drive is *not* present as > >the second drive on the first IDE chain. It has no problems with > >that same drive as the first drive on the second IDE chain. > > Voodoo stuff!! I award you the antacid award of the month for figuring that > out. That must have been a very frustrating experience. Is the "particular > hard drive" different from the others, let's say in terms of age or some > other factor?
It is new, 160G, and recognised as only 131G when I fdisked and formatted it (some hardware limit in old IDE controller, I presume.) I was planning to use it for my complete reinstall of Debian after a successful breakin. No such luck. I ended up using it as a forensic backup instead. It worked fine as /dev/hdc. The one that worked as /dev/hdb is old, out of warranty, and only 80G. -- hendrik > > Rob > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]