Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2702 mails)

[jlkreps@xxxxxxxxx (Jerry Lynn Kreps)]

Bo¹tjan Müller [NEONATUS] wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have recently posted two mails considering this problem.
> I have Western Digital Caviar 3.2GB. I have installed SuSE 6.0 from an iso image copied from suse's ftp site to a CD-rom. I cant afford a new CD at the moment couse I am a student with no income - except my pocket money which isn't verry high :( I have reformated my previous SuSE installation and installed win. I have checked the whoel hard disk and neither dos's scandisk nor windows's found any erros (I scanned the surface). Now I have reinstalled SuSE 6.0 from the CD and the errors are back. This was reported in sylog after unpacking the StarOffice tar package on the disk:
> Jun 26 20:45:55 neonatus kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Jun 26 20:45:55 neonatus kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError
> }, LBAsect=3800684, sector=91116
> Jun 26 20:45:55 neonatus kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 91116
> I don't know what it means exactly and dont know how to check to which partition does the sector belong to.
> 
> I don't think it is the disks fault cause it works ok under win / dos.
> 
> Can anyone help me is there something wrong with the suse iso image ?
> I know there were some problems with yast and english language when 6.0 was out. Could this be my problem too... I have installed it with english language set and have reformated the partitions with yast.
> 
> Help anyone please I don't want to use win anymore and I can't use SuSE if my disk keeps dissapering on me :(
> 
> THX in advance
> 
> Bostjan

I installed a 6.4GB WDC a few months ago.  I set the LBA and MultiSector
mode to YES, with a sector count of 16.
                C	H	S	MB
default		13328	15	63	6.449
current		13328	15	63	6.449
RAMBIOS INT13	785	255	63	6.457

When I partitioned it I let SuSE do it and didn't attempt to edit the 2
GB partitions to eliminate overlap.  No problems yet, even when I had a
power failure and had to fsck manually during boot a couple of weeks
ago.


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