Hello, This might be a little off-topic but I guess you can help me with this. Yesterday I installed Debian on my system and everything was fine, later that day, the harddisk acted weird.
I got ide0: interrupt lost messages and several timeouts. The harddisk made a real weird noise. I didn't touch hdparm of made a custom kernel until that point. So I thought: it might be 'overheated' by a day of use (which would not be good thing, but hey). So now in the morning the damn thing doesn't boot at all. I tried to reinstall both Debian or Windows98 but the harddisk cannot be detected any longer. I guess the harddisk is no more so I have to get myself a new one. I wondered if I could just slam in another 2.5" drive, or that is has to be an IBM drive or, even worse (because I think they aren't made any longer) a thinkpad390E specific drive. Does anybody have ideas on this or is the harddisk not damaged at all? Kind regards, Maurice Verhagen The Netherlands
