On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:21:49 -0800 k christ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hardware: >MSI K7T266 Pro2-A motherboard w/ AMD Athlon XP 1200 >Maxtor 40 GB hard drive > >Software: >Debian Woody 3.0 r1 > >The motherboard is new (never used, even though it's an older model), > recently purchased on Ebay. The hard drive is not new, but until > last >week I was using it in a different Debian system that ran for around >2.5 years with no problems (originally Potato, upgraded to Woody). > >I can boot off the first install CD and create partitions with no >problem. The swap partition (hda4, 2 GB) initializes fine, as does >hda1 (5 GB). When initializing the remaining partitions (hda2, 10 GB, >and hda3, 23 GB), 2+5+10+33=40G IMHO for a 40G hd ? Whereis hda1 ?? mess-mate the process stops and returns a "The filesystem was not >created" error. The installation then hangs. I tried using both ext2 >and ext3 with the same results. This happens no matter which >partition I try to initialize, whether or not I do a bad block scan, >and also when I tried to create one big partition as an experiment. > >In my troubleshooting efforts I booted off a recent Knoppix CD. Once >booted up, I ran mkfs, which ran fine on hda1 but segfaulted and hung > the system on hda2. A Windows 2000 blue screened during > installation. > >I'm guessing the problem might be with the IDE controller on this >motherboard, but I haven't been able to find anything on the web >about it. The board has a built in Promise IDE RAID controller, which >is disabled in the BIOS (although I tried it both ways). S.M.A.R.T. >is also disabled. Unfortunately, I don't have another hard drive or >motherboard to try, so I'm looking for a little insight into the >problem before I spend money on new hardware that may not fix the >problem. > >Any suggestions? > >Thanks in advance. > > >Kenn > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
