on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:42:50PM -0600, Steven Kurylo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a error come up while the kernel is booting, although it doesn't > affect the machine it makes the kernel loading take much longer than it > should. > > I am running woody and I have one HD (hda) its an IDE. > > During boot up I get the following > > ide1: SIS5513 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) > hda: WDC AC21200H, ATA DISK drive > hdc: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive > hdc: no response (status = 0xa1) > hdd: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive > hdd: no response (status = 0xa1) > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kb Cache, CHS=621/64/63 > > It then goes on to probe the floppy drive, then look for scsi (none) and on > to the partitions. > > I have no hdc and hdd however its probing for them, why? This takes a fair > bit of time since there are no HDs there and I have never seen this before > (although I don't have much experience :-) > > One last thing my HD has that might be causing a problem is that is has > EZ-BIOS from Maxtor installed (this loads before lilo). Its not something > I need, however I can't get rid of it. It was installed long ago when this > machine had another HD and needed EZ-BIOS to recognize the 10GB HD. I > removed the Maxtor HD awhile ago, however EZ-BIOS won't uninstall because > it can no longer find a Maxtor HD attached to the computer. Considering > the effort to get a Maxtor HD attached, I have just left it there.
Sounds like a broken BIOS to me -- can't uninstall an HD because it's not installed? I'd get a manual or on the phone to my vendor. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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