Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.
In your email to me, Daniel Stringfield, you wrote: I bought a 2.5 gig (Western Digital) IDE hard drive. It seems to be making weirdness happen on the machine its on. (a pentium 133, 430vx motherboard, 16mb ram). Whats happening on THIS machine is that the BIOS autodetects it, but locks up on boot. If I disable hard drive in CMOS, boots ok, gets into Linux (the boot set from the 8'th) and sees the drive, but then says hdb-hdd error resetting irq or something similiar (from last night, after my car broke down, and was already in a bad mood, so I don't remember exactly) those drives don't exist on my system, so didn't care about that. but when the Disks do anything to access the drive, the light turns on and I get messages saying something about an error on dev 03:00 i/o error and lots of messages about blablabla error status and it said either 30, or 50, and sometimes sayed 38 (or 58) don't remember.. (Sorry! I was very frustrated after the events of the night) I'm a computer tech myself, and personally think its either the controller on the drive itself, or its the IDE controller on the motherboard. (Which is going to really suck because I bought the motherboard from the last company I worked for who wants to charge me $25 for cleaning a keyboard that its logic board wasn't initializing correctly at boot, 1/10 boots. (It was UNDER WARRANTY). sorry for ranting.. this has not been a good week. You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Today is the tomorrow that yesterday you spent money like there was no Ivern Ball ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... Tim Pointed Lynx to www.wdc.com before I hit the reply button! thanks! -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... d/led the firmware upgrade, the upgrade said I was up to date. I then through it in my 486dx4/100 box (my normal system) and it worked like a champ. I'm now going to play with cmos settings in the pentium to see if somethings funky. If not.. gotta replace the motherboard. uhg. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... d/led the firmware upgrade, the upgrade said I was up to date. I then through it in my 486dx4/100 box (my normal system) and it worked like a champ. I'm now going to play with cmos settings in the pentium to see if somethings funky. If not.. gotta replace the motherboard. uhg. This might be your problem in the end - many so-called EIDE controllers on cheaper motherboards don't fully implement the spec. and just move the drive size limit from 0.5GB to 2GB. This warning came with a Quantum 3.2GB drive I bought and it duly applied to my system - the onboard controller caused major filesystem corruption *to the other drive on the interface* when I tried to get it to work. sigh At least I can still use it by moving it on to another controller the BIOS doesn't know about and rely on Linux to auto-detect it. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tongue-tied twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... Churchill Collegea href=http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~93sam/my home page/a Cambridge, UK a href=http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~93sam/comp/My PC page/a -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
