[Fwd: [ale] SCSI booting problem]

[Chris Ness]

Chris Ness wrote:
> 
> One more possiblility...
> 
>  And I'm sorry I am not finding the reference right away.
> 
>  If you were running WIN98 on that drive, there is a good chance that
> the
>  drive was formatted under DOS6 or newer.  In the boot sector is code
>  that cannot be overwritten normally (remember the error message'wrong
>  DOS version' when trying to format when you tried to format DOS in the
>  past?).
> 
>  Using 'dd' you need to zero out the bootsector. I have done this in the
>  last month on a ten dollar 240meg SCSI I got at the Mayretter show,
> but
>  I am not finding my note on this. My drive kept giving me errors upon
>  errors like it was totally bad and I would remake the drive over and
>  over; until I zeroed out the boot sector. Then I fdisked it and
>  mke2fs'ed it and it has been working since. Now if I could only find
> the
>  whole command string.
> 
>  Anybody else remember reading this anywhere?
> 
> --
> Chris Ness
> mailto:cness at gloster.vivid.net                All jobs are equally easy to
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> work.
>                                                             Holt's Law
> 
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> 
OK, I found my reference...

See the 'man fdisk' for the DOS6 warning.

See if this isn't your problem.


 
> One more possiblility...
> 
> And I'm sorry I am not finding the reference right away.
> 
> If you were running WIN98 on that drive, there is a good chance that the
> drive was formatted under DOS6 or newer.  In the boot sector is code
> that cannot be overwritten normally (remember the error message'wrong
> DOS version' when trying to format when you tried to format DOS in the
> past?).
> 
> Using 'dd' you need to zero out the bootsector. I have done this in the
> last month on a ten dollar 240meg SCSI I got at the Mayretter show,  but
> I am not finding my note on this. My drive kept giving me errors upon
> errors like it was totally bad and I would remake the drive over and
> over; until I zeroed out the boot sector. Then I fdisked it and
> mke2fs'ed it and it has been working since. Now if I could only find the
> whole command string.
> 
> Anybody else remember reading this anywhere?
> 
> --
> Chris Ness
> mailto:cness at gloster.vivid.net                All jobs are equally easy to
> http://www.vivid.net/~gloster               the person not doing the
> work.
>                                                             Holt's Law

-- 
Chris Ness
mailto:cness at gloster.vivid.net   	      All jobs are equally easy to
http://www.vivid.net/~gloster               the person not doing the
work.
				   			    Holt's Law