philo wrote:
> "Jack Owens" <jack@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:VIP5b.119380$Ij4.109402@news2.central.cox.net ...
>
>>Recently, S.M.A.R.T said my /dev/hda needed to be replaced. This is the
>>drive's MBR that lilo uses. I installed the new drive, but the boot
>>floppy disk wouldn't work. I temporarily reinstalled the old "hda" drive
>>and booted up. Couldn't make a new bootdisk with "mkbootdisk". Using a
>>modified "lilo", I installed LILO to a floppy disk. Reinstalled the new
>>drive as /dev/hda and booted up with the "lilo" floppy disk. I attempted
>>to install "lilo" on both /dev/hda and /dev/hdc(this contains the linux
>>RedHat 9.0 system). Couldn't boot up with either hard disk. Looked in
>>"dmesg" and found the following:
>>
>>hda: IC35L040AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
>>hdb: FUJITSU MPB3043ATU, ATA DISK drive
>>blk: queue c03be900, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
>>blk: queue c03bea44, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
>>hdc: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
>>blk: queue c03bed60, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
>>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>>hda: host protected area => 1
>>hda: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=5005/255/63,
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> UDMA(100)
>
>>hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>>hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>>hdb: 8448300 sectors (4326 MB), CHS=525/255/63, UDMA(33)
>>hdc: host protected area => 1
>>
>>What does "host protected area => 1" mean. I looked in the KT4V bios for
>>something to turn off the protection, but found nothing.
>>
>>Am I forever going to have to boot up with a floppy disk?
>
>
> it may be the bios *virus protection* option
>
> (that prevents writing to the boot sector)
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>
>
Virus protection is turned off.