On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:20:27PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
> >
> In some cases, with older drive types and/or systems, you can cheat a bit
> by enabling the system ROM shadow option in your CMOS. I really doubt
> that this would work on a PS/2, but my older AMD 386DX/40 (a truly super
> system) wit
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 04:09:06PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> :hd: controller still busy
> :hda: reset timed out: status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault
> :SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 04:09:06PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> Drive looks toasted. However ...
Yes, it does boot DOS and Windows.
> : The weird thing: the CHS numbers don't match either what CMOS says
> : (under MSD in DOS) or what I pass to the kernel at the boot
> : prompt, i.e. hd
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote:
[ snip ]
: hd: controller still busy
: hda: reset timed out: status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault
: SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
: hda: reset timed out: error=0xff { BadSector UncorrectableError
I'll make this as short as I can.
I've been having a devil of a time trying to get the Hamm install
kernel to read my hd at boot. I'm using the lowmem option to
install on a 4mb PS/2 model 35. (By the way, this is one of the
very few PS/2's that have an AT bus, so MCA is not the problem.)
Both
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