Disk not recognised

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Unfortunately, DBAN won't recognise the hard disk and seems unable to work because of it.

Below is the log file and I wonder if anyone can help.
Linux version 2.4.24-dban (root@vmsarge) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040125 (prerelease) (Debian)) #1 Sun Feb 22 20:45:22 PST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007fc0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007fc0000 - 0000000007ff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff8000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32704
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28608 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/rc quiet nuke="dwipe" BOOT_IMAGE=kernel.bzi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 598.478 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS
Memory: 126012k/130816k available (1553k kernel code, 4416k reserved, 631k data, 340k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2410] at 00:1f.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 512 blocksize
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.25)
HP CISS Driver (v 2.4.50)
v2.3 : Micro Memory(tm) PCI memory board block driver
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
ICH: chipset revision 2
ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: IBM-DPTA-372730, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
blk: queue c03a9600, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: _NEC DV-5800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX140E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 53464320 sectors (27374 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=3328/255/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
hdb:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 3
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 5
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 7
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 3
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 5
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 7
unable to read partition table
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Feb 22 2004 20:50:50)
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
IBM MCA SCSI: Version 4.0b
IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus present --> Aborting.
This machine does not have any IBM MCA-bus
or the MCA-Kernel-support is not enabled!
DC390: 0 adapters found
megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
aec671x_detect:
GDT: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 2.05
GDT: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.036.
3w-xxxx: No cards found.
nsp32: loading...
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 154k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 340k freed



Thanks if you've got this far
 
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