From viktor@albatros.sch.bme.hu Mon May 25 23:08:51 1998 From: viktor@albatros.sch.bme.hu To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] HD problem or what? Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:08:51 +0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0218543149390547180==" --===============0218543149390547180== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! I have a Seagate ST-31276A hard disk, and I run into problems when I'm trying to read from the last cylinder (I think) of my drive under linux. I have never encountered such problem under other OSes (like Win95). Is it a physical problem or I just did something wrong? Anyone had such problems? Viktor -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============0218543149390547180==-- From satan@nfinity.com Tue May 26 01:09:09 1998 From: satan@nfinity.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] HD problem or what? Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 20:09:09 -0500 Message-ID: <356A1635.8AECBC12@nfinity.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2765209566820095410==" --===============2765209566820095410== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As a rule of thumb I never use the last cylinder of a drive. I have read about people running into trouble with this in linux on usenet. The drive I have linux installed to is a 4 gig Western Digital Caviar IDE that has 969 cylinders. I only use 1-968 and no worries here. Magyar Viktor wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a Seagate ST-31276A hard disk, and I run into problems when I'm > trying to read from the last cylinder (I think) of my drive under linux. > I have never encountered such problem under other OSes (like Win95). Is it > a physical problem or I just did something wrong? Anyone had such > problems? > > Viktor > > > -- > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============2765209566820095410==-- From morgad@mail.eclipse.co.uk Tue May 26 18:19:52 1998 From: morgad@mail.eclipse.co.uk To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] HD problem or what? Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:19:52 +0000 Message-ID: <356b0369.1765324@titan.eclipse.net.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3551458280129535088==" --===============3551458280129535088== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 25 May 1998 23:08:51 +0000 (GMT), viktor wrote: > >Hi! > >I have a Seagate ST-31276A hard disk, and I run into problems when I'm >trying to read from the last cylinder (I think) of my drive under linux. >I have never encountered such problem under other OSes (like Win95). Is it >a physical problem or I just did something wrong? Anyone had such >problems? > >Viktor >=20 hi viktor i posted something similar in Message-ID: <3550a335.1962289@titan.eclipse.net.uk> on 4may= 98, where i had to set max cylinders to 780, not 784. don't know if it is disk or bios problem. let me know if you want a copy by email to repeat my request to SuSE: ********************************************************************* If the disk formatter gets an 'unrecoverable read error' could you please make it STOP the installation. not carry on the way it does at present ? ********************************************************************* thanks morgad --=20 ODB++ compatible pgp: 1024/AB181ED9 58 12 68 68 47 87 16 81 47 93 F6 75 31 61 C8 26 -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============3551458280129535088==--