Re: invalid geometry any ideas?
- From: Bill Marcum <marcumbill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 03:00:37 -0400
On 2007-11-02, joe <jcharth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello I put a EIDE drive on my server. I got these messages. Should iEither the drive or the BIOS or the partition table is messed up, or
flash the bios, upgrade the kernel? any ideas. thanks
Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS
settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: , ATA DISK drive
Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: set_geometry_intr: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: set_geometry_intr: error=0x04
{ DriveStatusError }
Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: 0 sectors (0 MB), CHS=0/0/0
Nov 2 16:41:45 kernel: hda: INVALID GEOMETRY: 0 PHYSICAL HEADS?
maybe the kernel; try a live CD, or an older kernel if you have one.
Can you do "fdisk -l /dev/hda"? (from the live CD). Does it show all
zeros or nonsense, or just fail to run?
.
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