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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: medrecjm@crl.com (John Mosser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: "Error: C:0 H:0 S:16" fixed! Date: 30 May 1996 07:54:51 -0700 Organization: the brink Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4okcrr$hfu@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] What a battle! After resorting to desparate shotgunning, I finally was able to get past this point upon trying to boot on boot.flp diskette. My system is a WYSE controller with a Western Digital WDAC2540H hard drive. After initially booting successfully with the boot.flp diskette and setting up partitioning parameters, etc., all looked well and good, then.... somebody/something hit me from behind! I saw sky, earth, then blackness - when I awoke, I had the dreaded "Error: C:0 H:0 S:16"! I tried pfdisk, bootinst, ide_conf, restorrb, osbs, praying, uncontrollable sobbing - couldn't recover. Went to Western Digital's web site (www.wdc.com) and downloaded wd_clear, and wrote all zeros to everywhere on the disk - that fixed it - after that I could boot again on boot.flp diskette. I won't offer an explaination *why* that fixed it, but it did. Now I'll continue my freebsd quest - or maybe I'll just develope a cure for cancer - whichever takes up less of my time ;) John