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Message from Steven
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Simon wrote:
>
> hdc: hdc1
> hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplere Error}
> hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}

This error probably occurs because the drive
is taking time coming up to speed and is not 
immediately readable.

> Disk /dev/hdc: 538 MB, 538804224 bytes
> 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes

Are those figures correct for your drive?
Is it a CDrom drive or standard harddrive?

> Device      Boot   Start   End   Blocks  ID   System
> dev/hdc1     *      1      522   525640+  6   FAT16
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>    phys=(521, 31, 63)  logical=(521, 15, 63)

It doesn't like the way the disk was formatted.
Are we able to reformat the disk or do you want
to keep the data on it?

Cheers,
Steven