Thanks to all who responded, got it fixed. I think it had something to do with
the 1024 cylinder thing. It appears that the last partition was in the problem
area, when I used a different size it worked.
Jose
"Jose E. Dominguez" wrote:
> Correction.
>
> > Brand new Deskstar 22GXP 13.5 gig. Installed drive as master on Promise
> > Ultra 66 controller, fdisk drive, yes to large disk support, primary
> > partition C 10895, extended with the rest of the space, first logical D
> > 1024, second logical E with the rest of the space, reboot. The MBs
> > numbers may not be right but you get the idea.
> >
> > At the A prompt enter C it comes up, enter D it comes up, enter E and I
> > get "invalid drive specification". After this happens I cannot get into
> > fdisk, I get "error reading fixed disk", I have to run a debug script to
> > blow the partition table away.
> >
> > Win98 is the boot disk, FAT32 is the setup. I get this whether the drive
> > is on the Promise controller, or on the mobos controller. The board is a
> > BX6 rev. 2, not overclocked while setting up. I have tried this on
> > another BX6 and another Promise controller with the same results.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > This same thing happened a few weeks ago with a Seagate Barracuda 20 gig
> > drive and I returned it thinking it was bad. Now it's happening again so
> > I'm thinking it may be something else. What are the chances of getting
> > two bad drives from different manufacturers?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jose
> >
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