Bill,

I'm not sure that 'hdd' is the CDROM drive, but it is
worth a try. I have to work the next few days, but I'll
try to download and create a new CDROM next week. Thank
you for the suggestion,

Regards,
Jim

Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 22:24:12 GMT, Jim Anderson
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have a PC that was running windows XP and died. It
>> sure looked like that hard disk crashed. I purchased
>> a new hard disk and attempted to load up Kubuntu.
>>
>> The PC read the CDROM and prompted with several options,
>> one of which is to install Kubuntu. I selected the install
>> and it took several minutes but I got the following
>> message:
>>
>> [17179716.848000] hdd: ide_intr: huh? expected Null handler on exit
>> [17179716.848000] Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 177903.
>>
>> I swapped out the hard disk for another one and got the same
>> error message. I do plan to test the disk drives in another PC
>> when I have one available, but I can't test them right now.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea on what the error message means?
>>
> Assuming that hdd is your cdrom drive, you might need to download and
> burn another CD.
>
>

Jim Anderson wrote:

>
> Bill,
>
> I'm not sure that 'hdd' is the CDROM drive, but it is
> worth a try. I have to work the next few days, but I'll
> try to download and create a new CDROM next week. Thank
> you for the suggestion,
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
> Bill Marcum wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 May 2007 22:24:12 GMT, Jim Anderson
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a PC that was running windows XP and died. It
>>> sure looked like that hard disk crashed. I purchased
>>> a new hard disk and attempted to load up Kubuntu.
>>>
>>> The PC read the CDROM and prompted with several options,
>>> one of which is to install Kubuntu. I selected the install
>>> and it took several minutes but I got the following
>>> message:
>>>
>>> [17179716.848000] hdd: ide_intr: huh? expected Null handler on exit
>>> [17179716.848000] Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 177903.
>>>
>>> I swapped out the hard disk for another one and got the same
>>> error message. I do plan to test the disk drives in another PC
>>> when I have one available, but I can't test them right now.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea on what the error message means?
>>>
>> Assuming that hdd is your cdrom drive, you might need to download and
>> burn another CD.
>>
>>

Usual notation for IDE disks is:
hda Primary Master
hdb Primary Slave
hdc Secondary Master
hdd Secondary Slave
hde Tertiary Master
hgf Tertiary Slave etc.

Bruce S.

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