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Re: install problem
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 1996, Moshe Meirzadeh wrote:
>
> > hd.c:ST506 interface disk with more than 16 heads detected
> > probebly due to non standard sector translation.. giving up.
> > (disk 0:cyl=525, sect=63, head=64)
>
> Yes, a clue. You did _NOT_ bother to read documentation. Were you to do
> such a profoundly unpleasant thing, you would discover the following:
Well Marc...
I usually DO read the documentation.
>
> In SCSI-HOWTO, this specific message is refered to. You may have either
> an EATA board in your machine (i.e. a DPT) or an Ultrastor board. Please
> bother to read the pertinent HOWTO and post pertinent information.
>
And unfortunately i don't have niether EATA board nor Ultrastor board, (but
intel-HILLERY).
After all this is one the of purposes of this mailing list, where you can
use other's experience after you read the docs.
Please be more productive next time and save us all some bandwidth.
I hope i DON'T heard you, and ... please don't open a discussion on this
issue (for the same reason).
> A standard alternative is to invoke the kernel with "hd=c,h,s".
>
Thanks for this helpfull tip.
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