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Hi, I recently purchased a Western Digital Caviar 4.0GB harddrive
and I'm trying to install redhat 5.0 on it.

The drive has the following configuration: CHS: 7752/16/63

My bios reads the drive just fine, but linux seems to have problems
with the drive. When I try to partition it using fdisk it tells me
that linux only likes to read up to cylinder 1024. Now I just read
the Large-Disk-mini-howto but since I'm fairly new to the linux
community this is quite confusing to me.

I went ahead and partitioned the drive anyway, and made sure that my
root partition (/) fell within the first 1024 cylinders and then added
the rest of my partitions after cylinder 1024. I ran into two problems.
1.  There is a strange "+" after the size of my first partition.
2.  After I create the partition table, I verify the table and it tells
    me that my partitions overlap. I rewrite them and leave a little bit
    of space between them and eventually this problem goes away.

Then I try to write the new table to the drive but it takes about half
an hour for it do this. Then when I go back and try to install linux
everything goes haywire as soon as I get around to checking for bad
blocks on my first partition. The installation process exits with the
message that looks something like (I'm not at my machine now)
        md5: block device non existent
I think that is what it said. After that I can't do anything anymore.
When I reboot and try to install again it exits telling me that I can't
mount the root directory

I hope someone can help me with this

Thanks,
        Pascal
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I have found that when working with "new" drives on any operating system,
that reseating the drive helps in about 80% of the cases.

Larry S. Dare                                 "A crash reduces

http://www.seattleu.edu/~ldare                 to a simple stone."

Hi,

I'm trying to install redhat 5.1 on a newly purchased western
digital 4 GB hard drive. When trying to format the swap space
the installation process exits with the message: md0 not found,
and there are messages complaining about: trying to read a non-
existing block-device: 1876.

When rebooting and going through the installation process again
all the mount points set previously in disk druid are gone.

What is the deal here?

Also I have a strange '+' in my partition table. This appears
right after the size of my first primary partition.

All comments are appreciated. Thanks

Pascal

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1746 Banks                    |        office:
Houston, TX 77098             |        Cox 201
(713) 523-2318                |        (713) 527-8750 x3572
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