No, you haven't done anything wrong (that I know of). The "code" tags
are like HTML, you need to close the tag with a "/code" when you are
done with the formatting. For example, the following is formatted with
the
"squarebrace code squarebrace" formatted text "/squarebrace code squarebrace":
Hard drives never seem to be an easy problem, I doubt that it's that
others don't want to help. Either they think the question has been
answered elsewhere on this forum, or they don't know the answer. . .
I don't know the answer, I'm just helping you through the steps to
diagnose the problem (which is going slowly, but IS going).
We now are able to get something (besides the kernel) to recognize
your hard drive (hdparm failed before, according to your posts).
Ok, we're going to take your hard drive down to the lowest settings that
we can, if we can't get it to work with that, and since you don't need the
data on it, I can't really think of a better solution than a lowlevel format
within the BIOS (if it supports it, some of the new BIOSs don't seem to
support that). Actually, we'll try changing from LBA mode to C/H/S
mode before doing the format. . .
Again, w/o rebooting in between, do the following:
hdparm -d0 /dev/hda
hdparm -m0 /dev/hda
fdisk /dev/hda