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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!wizard.pn.com!Germany.EU.net!Duesseldorf.Germany.EU.net!Bonn.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI on Pentium Pro Date: 18 Jun 1996 11:03:14 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4q62di$39g@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4pv75l$pql@gaia.ns.utk.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E lekes@panacea.phys.utk.edu (Stavros Siopsis) wrote: > I just bought a new pentium pro 200 computer and I tried to install BSDI. > I tried to boot from the install disk and it gives me this error: > > Read error on block 16 of unit 0 > Error 4: sector was not found. Retrying... > > and after a while it says generic I/O error and it stops reading the disk. > It gives me this kind of reading errors even if I try to install Solaris, > linux or Freebsd! Block 16? Hmm, this heavily smells like a misdeclared floppy drive (declared 5.25" where it's actually 3.5"), so it tries to read this block from the wrong location. Thanks to the superb engineers at Big Blue, they haven't designed any method how one could autoprobe the size of a floppy drive (at least not without a formatted floppy in the drive). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j