BIOS signature on HD failed

QNX USERS QNX2 and QNX4
1

I need help installing the EIDE HD drive to QNX4.
I runned QN4-product suite. I installed QNX, QNX windows, tcpip. Everything was OK, but when I tried to boot , then :

starting QNX…
Path=0 - EIDE
target=0 lun=0 Direct-Access(0) - WDC WD400BB-60DG Rev:
mount -p: read() of BIOS signature on /dev/hd0.0 failed: No such device or address.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

2

Well, the message seems to be saying, no partition on the drive. That’s pretty extreme. You could try booting from the CD or a floppy and see if you can mount it manually. Could be a hard drive problem too.

3

Hi there!

I had a similar problem. The error message I got was:

‘mount -p: read() of BIOS signature on /dev/hd0 failed: input/output error’.

I found the cause of this was in the BIOS set up.

Go to

‘Itergrated Peripherials’;

I had to DISABLE ‘IDE Primary Master UDMA’ rather than it been set to AUTO.

Hope this helps!

:slight_smile: