LILO bane error when writing MBR 1489

Grant

Here's what fdisk and hdparm have to say:

Diskdev-hda: 3500 MB, 3500007424 bytes 128 heads, 63 sectors-track, 847 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systemdev-hda1 * 1 26 104800+ 6 FAT16dev-hda2 27 560 2153088 5 Extendeddev-hda3 561 847 1157184 7 HPFS-NTFSdev-hda5 27 153 512032+ 6 FAT16dev-hda6 154 280 512032+ 82 Linux swapdev-hda7 281 560 1128928+ 83 Linux

dev-hda: Model=FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, FwRev=9517, SerialNo=06283129 RawCHS=6780-16-63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=32, MultSect=32 CurCHS=6780-16-63, CurSects=6834240, LBA=yes, LBAsects=6835952 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w-IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 AdvancedPM=no Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA-ATAPI-1 ATA-ATAPI-2 ATA-ATAPI-3 * signifies the current active mode

This is a Pentium MMX running 166mHz with 80mB of memory. Not my main machine - just to experiment on ... and learn.

Would I be better off with a different HD?

Thanks for your help! Roby