In your case, "broken disk" = "no disk", so make sure that the
BIOS does not have some settings for that slot in IDE Setup.
Regards,
Tigran A. Aivazian, http://www.aivazian.demon.co.uk/
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Erick Kinnee wrote:
> Every time I boot I see the message in the subject. Here is dmesg from just before and after that error:
>
> hda: Maxtor 90680D4, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: non-IDE drive, CHS=784/255/63
> hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: FX240S, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: Maxtor 90680D4, 6485MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=826/255/63, (U)DMA
> hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 PHYSICAL HEADS?
> hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, 6149MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, (U)DMA
> hdd: ATAPI 24X CDROM drive, 256kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.51
>
> Now, this did not occur until I put the Quantum in... It also goes away if I move the Quantum to hdb (note there are ONLY 3 droves, Maxtor, Quantum and Mitsumi CD). Now is this a kernel thing? Or a broke-ass BIOS?
>
> Linux cerb 2.2.0-pre3 #1 Sat Jan 2 16:13:41 CST 1999
> One Intel Pentium 75 - 200 processor, 78.64 total bogomips, 64M RAM
> System library 2.0.7
>
>
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