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12-13-2006, 12:27 AM
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Registered: May 2006
Distribution: Mandrake, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, SuSE
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BaseLinux won't mount hdd
Yeah, I've got this ancient ancient laptop that formerly ran Windows 3.1. It can't handle anything better. This thing is so old it's black and white. Toshiba T2000SX.
Anyway, I got the floppies all formatted and stuff (no CD drive or network port) and it decompresses and boots the kernel just fine. It tries to detect the partitions of the only hard disk, and then it spews "DriveStatusError"s, "DriveReadyError"s, and "SectorIdNotFound"s. Is it safe to say the hdd is dead?
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12-13-2006, 04:53 AM
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Mageia 7 - Debian 10 - Artix Linux
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"DriveStatusError"s, "DriveReadyError"s, and "SectorIdNotFound"s
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Those are usually drive/disk related. Maybe if you reformat or low-level format it, might help it. |
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