Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on a new machine: dual pii 350 512 mb ram asus p2b-ds 18 gb ibm dghs18v u2w scsi The 18 gb hard drive is the only hard drive on this system. I've set the scsi id of the drive to 0, and all of the scsi bios parameters look ok. This is the only scsi device in the system, so I've set the active termination jumper. The drive and its correct scsi id are detected by bios at startup. During the Mandrake installation, the on-board aic7890 scsi host is detected, as is the hard drive. But then when I try to partition the disk, the installation hangs. When I tried fdisk, I got no prompt for partitioning commands. Then I restarted the installation and tried to use disk druid. I got the error message: Bad Partition Table- The partition table on device sda is corrupted. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of all data on this drive. Since there wasn't anything on the drive, I went ahead and initialized. But now it's been hanging for over twelve hours in "Setup filesystems". Is it formatting the drive? I know it'll take some time to format an 18 gb hard drive, but this does not seem normal. Also, there are jumpers on this drive for active termination and termination power enable. Should both of these be shorted? Right now, I've only shorted the active termination jumpers. Thanks for any suggestions, Hidong
