In your email to me, Daniel Stringfield, you wrote: > > > I bought a 2.5 gig (Western Digital) IDE hard drive. It seems to be > making weirdness happen on the machine its on. (a pentium 133, 430vx > motherboard, 16mb ram). Whats happening on THIS machine is that the BIOS > autodetects it, but "locks up" on boot. If I disable hard drive in CMOS, > boots ok, gets into Linux (the boot set from the 8'th) and sees the drive, > but then says hdb-hdd "error resetting irq" or something similiar (from > last night, after my car broke down, and was already in a bad mood, so I > don't remember exactly) those drives don't exist on my system, so didn't > care about that. but when the Disks do anything to access the drive, the > light turns on and I get messages saying something about an error on dev > 03:00 i/o error and lots of messages about "blablabla error status" and it > said either 30, or 50, and sometimes sayed 38 (or 58) don't remember.. > (Sorry! I was very frustrated after the events of the night) > > I'm a computer tech myself, and personally think its either the controller > on the drive itself, or its the IDE controller on the motherboard. (Which > is going to really suck because I bought the motherboard from the last > company I worked for who wants to charge me $25 for "cleaning" a keyboard > that its logic board wasn't initializing correctly at boot, 1/10 boots. > (It was UNDER WARRANTY). sorry for ranting.. this has not been a good > week.
You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Today is the tomorrow that yesterday you spent money like there was no" Ivern Ball ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]