FW: Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP

[Net Llama!]

On 07/11/03 19:29, Koko1 wrote:

> Subject: Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP
> 
> 
> 
> Greets:
> 
> I am trying to install RH 7.2, dual boot with XP Pro.  I installed second
> drive for RH.  BIOS sees it; Secondary Slave.  As RH install disk loads it
> sees the drive as hdd and correctly identifies it as Maxtor etc...
> 
> As it probes a few lines down it says:
> 
> hdd:hdd: irq timeout: status 0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete}
> 
> repeats this a few times, then:
> 
> ide1:reset: master error (0x00?}
> 
> tries a few more times then goes into the graphical install portion.  I get
> to partition info and select Manual with Disk Druid.
> 
> It tells me "The partition table on device hdd was unreadable.  To create
> new partitions it must be initialized."
> 
> I say YES, then:
> 
> Input/Output error during read on tmp/hdd
> 
> 
> I went back into XP and created a partition (FAT32).  Same results during RH
> install.  I went back to XP again (getting desperate here) and tried marking
> it ACTIVE, hoping for I don't know what.  Same results.
> 
> Any ideas or does it just sound like a bad drive?  Its new 20GB.

Sounds like the classic symptoms of a bad drive, or bad controller.  Have 
you tried moving it to a different location?  Also, is the drive jumpered 
to be the slave?  Just wondering why you're playing with RH-7.2?


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