RichardA wrote:
Hi,Are you sure it's a formatting problem,because these links,
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: success
Clearly this not good, but is it a hardware problem, or can I do a low-level format somehow? (the drive is a Fujitsu 3 year old 20GB, so I fear the worst. Class action anyone?).
Thanks
Richard
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-November/027942.html
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0009.1/0140.html
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0210.1/1615.html
suggest it may be something to do with reading the disc.
John
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