that was a great idea.. i did just that when i tried to install
mandrake 9.0 on my 6gb ide disk last night. Here are SOME of
the error messages:
- <6>end_request: I/O error,dev 16:41 (hdd), sector 7344224
several of these with different sectors
- rpmdb: fsync input/output error
- bad package locals-en.2.3.1.3-7mdk.i586
indeed it looks like a hw failure on the disk.
but then i have a couple of questions:
1. why is the disk accessable in windows when i format it with
fat32 ?
2. why is diskdruid and pqmagic able to format partitions on this disk?
i havent checked the error messages on my other disk,
but im fairly sertain that i will get the same messages
as the symptoms are the same on both disks
(see my initial post in this thread).
im gonna borrow another ide disk from a friend of mine, and
if i get the same error message trying to install on that disk
my new motherboard is gonna get thrown out the window
as i then cannot see any other solution that it is the cause of
my troubles.
regards
nappy