Error 18

[Paul Gear]

Chris Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:58:55 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
>
>   
>> Chris Taylor wrote:
>>     
>>> I get this message now and again when I start my computer "Error 18
>>> Selected cylinders exceeds maximum supported by BIOS. can anyone help
>>>       
>
>   
>> If it only happens intermittently, you may have a hardware problem which
>> causes the hard disk to report the wrong number of cylinders.
>>
>>     
> Thanks for your input Paul
> This only started to happen after doing a online upgrade to 9.10 from 
> 9.04.
>
> Was thinking of doing clean install with 9.10 any thoughts?
My knowledge on this is not comprehensive, but would expect a clean
install to have no effect.  Perhaps a grub reinstall might help, but i
doubt that even.

Most likely it is something to do with your hardware or BIOS settings. 
Did you change your SATA settings?  Some BIOSes allow selection of EHCI
or ATA emulation, and one might work better than the other for you.

Paul

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