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'Controller has failedector' error

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While working on a Cisco PIX update, I was using RAWRITE to create the bootbale floppy. Here is the erro that I keep getting:

"Controller has failedector: 1"

What does this mean and how can I fix it.

Thanks-
Jay

JFrederick29

I'm assuming you are creating the bootable floppy in Linux, right? Have you tried a different disk? Is your floppy drive bad? Can you read/write other files from the drive?

If you don't get a response to your question hear, you may want to ask this question in the Linux topic area.

mjryerse

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Hi-

No, the rewrite utility that I have is from Cisco and was designed to use from a command prmpt in Windows. I've tried 4 different machines with W98, 2000 Server, and two XP machines.

I searched Google and saw that several people were having a similar problem while trying to install Slackware. I chose Networking because I didn't beleive that Linux fit...

Jay

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Are you still working on this? Can we be of any more assistance?
Can you close out this question?

mjryerse

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Thank you all for your input. After receiving the initial response from JFrederick29, I went ahead and installed a TFTP server locally and uploaded the new flash file live without using the bootable disk.

For reference only, I used long format on several high-density disks on multiple machines. I did receive the interactive dialogs mentioned by lrmoore (Thank you).

After getting the PIX up and running, I found the best solution was to upgrade the flash ram to allow a much newer PIX IOS to operate on the firewall.

Thank you to all...

Jay