[buyerninety]

RJARRRPCGP , indeed BIOS translation or CDOUBLEJJ mentioned he is installing additional files from Toshiba, possibly software
for the laptop that affects the translation... or that software/BIOS is emplacing a HPA [Wiki] onto the HD (also can cause I/O errors) ref;
http://www.win.tue.n...ge-Disk-11.html
section 11.5,
Maybe there is a section in the BIOS (particularly relevant to Phoneix BIOSes) which allows him to toggle on/off whether a HPA is
activated?.
->CDOUBLEJJ seems happy that the current prob is fixed, so we are really only 'kicking the can' now as to what could
have caused the original problem that gave I/O Errors...from elsewhere on the web I believe his orig HD's actually
had EXT3 and other partitioned filesystems & OSes on them...
If that wasn't it though, for completeness (others having I/O errors) I'll mention a possible 3rd Cause...he mentioned
about using a cage for the HD... if that's an electronic HD enclosure there's a possible problem, - from the HPA wiki;
http://en.wikipedia...._protected_area
"Some vendor-specific external drive enclosures (Maxtor) are known to use HPA to limit the capacity of unknown replacement hard drives installed into the enclosure. When this occurs, the drive may appear to be limited in size
(e.g. 128 GB), which can look like a BIOS or dynamic drive overlay (DDO) problem. "
So if you were using a HD enclosure (not a simple metal and wires box, but rather with an electronic enclosure) it
could impose its own translation geometry upon any HD installed in it, possibly giving an incorrect translation for
current high capacity HD's. Cheers

This post has been edited by buyerninety: 16 January 2012 - 02:54 AM