Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:53:07 -0800 From: "Lawrence Sica" <lomifeh@hotmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Stable" <fbsdstable@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us>, <FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <jacks@sage-american.com> Subject: Re: Possibly another RC2 ATA problem. Message-ID: <OE31K1d0VeBiMXf2hXZ00019b54@hotmail.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20020123164746.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: <jacks@sage-american.com> To: "FreeBSD Stable" <fbsdstable@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us>; <FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Possibly another RC2 ATA problem. > Try running FDISK from the CD-ROM or boot a DOS floppy and run: > FDISK /status > ...to see what you have. You could then try to remove the partition(s) and > start over.... > > At 04:36 PM 1.23.2002 -0600, FreeBSD Stable wrote: > >I tried to load RC2 from the ISO image on a dual-athalon board with > >an IBM Deskstar 60GB. This was previously running a functioning Red Hat. > > > >I told partition to take the whole drive, gave it some labels to use, > >and told it to take ALL distributions. When I commited, I quickly got a > >write error from the drive. (The boot block was NOT protected in the > >BIOS.) Did you use dangerously dedicated on that drive when you set it up? I have had it happen to me on a drive because of that. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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