On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Richard J. Sears wrote:
> I am trying to install 2.0.0 on a dual pentium 100 with a Conner ultra wide CFP4207W
> utilizing an Adaptec 2940UW PCI Controller.
>
> I get past the boot and root disks no problem. When I run fdisk I see the following:
>
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> Disk /dev/sda: 255 Heads, 63 Sectors, 522 Cylinders
> Units = Cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> ---------
>
> After setting up two partitiona, one 64MB for Swap, and the other the rest of the hard drive,
> I do a write and get the following message:
>
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> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector=512 bytes, sectors=8388608 [4096 MB] [4.1GB]
> sda: sda1 sda2
> -----------
>
> Then I move on to installation and set up the swap and etc and start the actual install, I get the following
> message:
>
> -----------
> you must set heads sectors & cylinders.
> You can do this from the extra menu.
>
> Warning: Invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite).
> -----------
>
>
> The installation starts writing to the hard drive but always starts getting errors around
> the comm package. I have tried two different distribution with the exact same result. I have
> also tried two seperate 4GB hard drives (One Conner and one Seagate) and have the exact
> same problem. I have also tried two different controllers with the same problem.
>
> Is there an issue here that I am missing. I have tried the ramdisk hd=xxx,xxx,xxx with all different
> variations of the drive specs, however it never once changed the heads, sectors, or cylinders. I even
> used expert mode in fdisk and reset tham manually, wrote it, rebooted and got the exact same thing!
>
> I have already the SCSI how-to before someone suggests that and it helps not :-(
>
> If anyone can shead some light on this problem, I would be most grateful!
>
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