Hi Andrew,
The disk is in fine working order without bad sectors, it seemed to of been more of a RH module problem, though interestingly and annoyingly today I attempted the install again which success was gained, annoyingly because I don't know what the problem was.
I must say that RH 7.3 is impressive and with sampling Gnome, which is really nice, it is certainly a vast performance increase on the same machine which previously housed SuSe and KDE! Gnome seems to me quite slick with some nice default features.
Anyway, thanks for your time.
Jamie
Stowmarket :(
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Andrew Wallis Sent: 04 December 2002 13:00 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: RE: [Alug] RH 7.3 Install
Not sure what your problem is but I suggest you enter the SCSI BIOS at boot-up and carry out a complete low-level format of the disk from there (and verification / re-mapping of faulty sectors) if you have the time. Then re-try your installation.
BTW, I always do this before a new installation in case any new bad sectors have turned up.
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-----Original Message----- Message: 2 From: jamie.french@talk21.com To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:53:26 GMT+00:00 Subject: [Alug] RH 7.3 Install
Hi Guys,
After downloading RH7.3 and conducted a linux mediacheck when at partitioning stage I receive the following error "Partition table on device sda was unreadable. Initialize this drive Yes/No." By selecting Yes the following error occured "no valid devices were found to create new filesystems". Thus the system kills sessions and reboots.
By checking system messages (ctrl+alt+F4) at various points I can determine that the SCSI card and devices where detected.
Though after receiving the final error messege the following system message appears a number of time "parity error detected in data-in phase".
Please bear in mind this machine has been running SuSe without any difficulties.
Machine Spec:
Supermicro P6SBU 196MB Onboard AIC-7890 SCSI ULTRA2/LVD Seagate 9GB LVD
Any help would be great as I am trying to learn this sh*t.
Take Care,
Jamie
Best Regards,
Jamie French
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