>hi! > >i own an ibm ps/2 8580 with two 300 mb esdi harddisks, which are attached to >an esdi adapter. maybe this causes a failure at the partition check with >following messages: > >partition check: >ps/2 esdi: normal esdi adapter found in slot 8 >ps/2 esdi: dma arbitration level : 5 >ps/2 esdi: hard reset ... >ps/2 esdi: attention error. interrupt status : 2f >ps/2 esdi: status: 00 >ps/2 esdi: reset interrupt after 196 jiffies: 1.96 sec >ps/2 esdi: drive 0 >ps/2 esdi: ps2esdi_out_command timed out (1) > >the partition of drive c: (drive 0?) is fat16 >the partition of drive d: is dos extended >the partition option: ed=cyl,head,sec won't change these boot failure messages. >(boot: linux ed=cyl,head,sec ?!) >many thanks! > >
peter rosenkranz rinnboeckstr. 27/12 1110 vienna, austria tel.: +4317433454 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
