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Re: install problem
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:
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.
A standard alternative is to invoke the kernel with "hd=c,h,s".
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Marc A. Volovic (marc@cs.huji.ac.il)
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