fedora 3 will not install on second hard drive. Hard drive is Maxtor 6Y080LO 80GB, slave to Samsung SV1021H 10GB. Windows XP Pro on the Samsung. I have repeatedly formatted the drive. first in ext3, then ext2, then fat 32...
I have partitioned the drive, to no avail, then erased the partitions, still to no avail.
Starts the graphical installation, then receive a bug "message.
Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S ==A) at disk_dos.c:495 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed
96
Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:495 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed
96
Assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:495 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed
96

Does anyone have an acceptable answer? Would dearly love to say goodbye to Windows.
Thanks

Is LBA enabled on the BIOS for that device? Try toggling that. It looks to have a C/H/S issue, which can usually be attributed to some sort of LBA problem.