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- From: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: HELP!!!! SCSI problem!
- Message-ID: <1gbcl8INN602@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 00:44:24 GMT
- Reply-To: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs)
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- I'm really not at all happy with linux so far. Its nuked my harddrive and
- caused me hours of untold grief. I've asked all the IRC #linux gurus I
- couldhunt down for help and they don't seem to have a clue... so here
- goes:
- I have a Western Digital 7000FASST SCSI controller, and a Maxtor 338meg
- hard drive. Its physical characteristics are:
-
- Cylinders = 1632 !!!! They say this is a problem !!!!
- Tracks/sector = 54
- Heads = 8
- Tracks/Zone = 8
- Alt. Sectors/zone = 5
- Alt. Tracks/zone = 0
- Bytes/Pysical sector = 512
- Interleave = 1
- Track Skew = 0
- Cylinder Skew = 16
-
- I boot up, it recognizes my controller, it says
-
- "bad paritiion table for dev 0800
- partition table ok."
-
- When I boot.
-
- I then run "fdisk /dev/sda" and I enter the extended options menu and
- enter the tracks, cylinders and heads and it ends up nuking my hard drive
- without fail.
-
- To put my request simply: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- Many thanks,
- Kevin Jacobs --- programmer seeking to become one with the wall.
- At high speed
-
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- --- Camber - Kevin --- | If the red slayer think he slays,
- E-Mail: kbj@po.CWRU.edu | Or if the slain think he is slain,
- | They know not what the subtle ways
- quote by: Ralf Waldo Emerson | I keep, and pass, and turn again.
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