John and Samy,
The question of whether a
low-level format is necessary or not is sort of moot for me, at the
moment. I went back and did a separate low-level format and verify, no
errors. I didn't really think there were.
So then I inserted the 7.1
personal bootdisk in the floppy drive, it started up, went to Yast 2, after a
couple of steps it told me that there was no hard drive (yes, the tekram card
was in and the SCSI bios was installed), and dumped me to Yast1. I went
through the autoprobe, put in the modules disk per instructions, it located the
tekram SCSI card, and the Realtek NIC (but not the 3com 3C509). After that
I selected installation, and there it hung. Just like it did before all of
this low-level formatting, etc.
Right now the 6.4/IDE system is
up and running. I will go back and try to install 7.0 on the SCSI disk one more
time, and then find some other use for the 7.1 package. This really looks
like the end of the line for SuSE and me.
Stan Koper
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 1:00
PM
Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.1 Won't Install, and
Worse
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, cll muzh said:
>Low-level
formats should never be necessary, IMHO. A complete format+check
>does the same sort of thing.
I question whether that's true in
all cases. I have a couple of damaged
IDE drives from my portables
that won't format. If I had a low level
format utility I might be
able get around the problem. I think surface
damage issues are
sometimes best handled this way. I also think it
depends on the drive
design. I'm not sure that all drives are designed to
do auto sector
re-allocation when they encounter read / write errors.
And if it's
available, I don't see why I shouldn't use it - it's not
black
magic.
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John
Karns
jkarns@csd.net
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