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<H4>"The Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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LinuxCare,
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com/">http://www.linuxcare.com/</A>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>Try Linux ... and Grammar</H3>
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<p><strong>From firefly on Mon, 14 Jun 1999
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hi dont know if you can help me so ill run my problem by ya!
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i just bought a8.4gig samsung drv
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i put it in as a slave and used partition magic to partition it
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4k clusters......2gig/5gigand 1.4gig
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rebooted and installed win 95b
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when itryed to use files form the hdd thsy had errors so i thought
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though ill format the drv and start again..... i removed all
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partitions and rebooted with a boot disk95ver and it started to
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format when it got too 27% it started saying. TRYING TO RECOVER
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FILE ALLOCATION UNITS now scandisk says ive got bad
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clusters...could you tell me whats happening here?
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thanks g.lishman
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Sounds like a bad drive, bad cable, or bad controller
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(not to mention a bad keyboard actuator).
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It could be some incompatibility between the slave and
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master (some IDE drives cannot co-exist in some combinations
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on an IDE channel). Try running it on the other IDE channel
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that you'll find in most recent PCs. (Configure the new
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drive as standalone or as the master to your IDE/ATAPI
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CD-ROM if you have one on that channel). Make sure to try a
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fresh drive cable.
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You might also try using some punctuation and capitalization
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in your messages. This is not IRC. When you ask volunteers
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(such as me) to provide the technical support that your
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vendor was supposed to have sold you, the least you can do
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is spend a little extra time on your message. It's best if
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you can give the impression that you've done a bit of
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research and made some attempt to find the answer on your
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own.
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Naturally you could also try installing Linux on this drive.
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Linux has a neat utility called 'badblocks' which can be
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used by itself and which is called by our filesystem
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creation and filesystem check utilities (mke2fs and e2fsck
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among others). After all, I'm the LINUX GAZETTE "Answer Guy"
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not the "my Samsung IDE hard drive doesn't work with
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Microsoft Windows '95 rev B answer guy."
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 43 July 1999</H5>
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<H6 ALIGN="center">HTML transformation by
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<A HREF="mailto:star@starshine.org">Heather Stern</a> of
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