On Monday 16 December 2002 03:34 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: > Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the large > WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like that on the > drive to overwrite the system's drive table. Problem is, if you're booting > from CD-ROM, the system never get's the chance to read the new drive table > from the hard drive. If you think that may be the problem, the solution > I've used is to first boot from the hard drive and once the new drive table > loads, reboot (without powering off) and put the CD in. The system usually > doesn't clear out the new drive table. > > Joeb
No, I don't think so. It is a brand new motherboard. however... it DID come with a special ide controller card. Seems that WD drives are junk based on another thread. :( > > -------Original Message------- > From: Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 12/16/02 08:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity > > > Well it seems that this is more serious than I first thought. I just > > tried an > > install to this new WD 180GB drive. Seems there is some limitations to the > size of the drive, or the drive is junk. ?? Maybe truly a kernel bug. ? > > End_request: I/O error, Dev 03:47 (hdb), sector <numerous sectors> > Journal-601, buffer write failed > Kernel BUG at prints.c:334! > invalid operand: 0000 > cpu 0 > > Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've > done some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody have > any light to shed?
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