Matt Domsch wrote:
> Then BIOS says you've got two more disks.
> Both disks 82 and 83 look remarkably small (20808 sectors each,
> ~10MB). And I would bet there's no media present, as there's no
> mbr_signature field given... So BIOS says there's a disk there, but
> there really isn't. Which could cause the kind of timeout you're
> seeing. To what are these attached? It's the BIOS for this
> controller that's probably what's lying.
Some Dell notebooks do this, IIRC. Try removing the HD from a Latitude
CPi or CPiA and then booting from a floppy distro like tomsrtbt (from
http://www.toms.net). It's been a while but that 20808 number looks awfully
familiar...
--Chuck Ebbert 09-Oct-04 00:30:52
Current book: Stephen King: The Waste Lands
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:13:58AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Matt Domsch wrote:
>
> > Then BIOS says you've got two more disks.
> > Both disks 82 and 83 look remarkably small (20808 sectors each,
> > ~10MB).
>
> Some Dell notebooks do this, IIRC. Try removing the HD from a Latitude
> CPi or CPiA and then booting from a floppy distro like tomsrtbt (from
> http://www.toms.net). It's been a while but that 20808 number looks awfully
> familiar...
My Latitude CPiA does not exhibit this, both with a rather old BIOS
and with the newest BIOS. I'd appreciate hearing of other systems
that do though. If it's a common occurance, I should be able to deal
with that as a special case.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
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