From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) Subject: DC600 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 09:22:27 +0000
In article <716937001snx@hamster.demon.co.uk> hwm@hamster.demon.co.uk writes:
>
>I have just tried to install Linux on my machine, but I am having trouble
>with my hard disk controller (or so it seems). I use a DC600 with four
>drives altogether, 2x400 MB and 2x200MB with the first two making up a
>logical 800 MB drive and the latter two another 400 MB. I have set aside an
>empty 100 MB partition on the end of the first logical drive, and the linux
>fdisk seems to recognize it more or less correctly. The controller really
>makes everything look as if there were only two physical drives, which even
>works with weird stuff like the OS/2-fdisk, so I suspect that this is not
>the problem. Linux' fdisk also sees some phantom partitions with negative
>sizes in addition to the real ones. Now when I boot it from A:, the setup
>process runs just fine up to the stage when it tries to write the root image
>from the second disk to the HD partition, whatever size I give linux for
>its partition.
>
>Any ideas?
>
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I think your DC600 controller is the problem ,can you try it with a different
IDE card
anthony
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