Hello everybody. I'm having over here great trouble. The following is my cruel fate:
Everything started a good year ago. It was ca. the start-up of my 'Linux-at-home career' and also the first time, one of my harddrives died a - to me - mysterious death. At this time I often switched from linux to Windows and vice versa. More about the 'mysterious death' of my harddrive. It was a Quantum Fireball with about 14 GByte of capacity and a slot A AMD Athlon on a Epox EP-7KXA Mainboard. All worked pretty fine and then suddenly I heard this strange sound from my harddrive. It twanged like the read/write header of the hdd would somehow hang. First of all, the system just froze for several seconds but after short time the system started to freeze completely after such events and also the frequency of these sounds increased rapidly. For then I just believed the onboard IDE Controller of my motherboard would be damaged. So a new mainboard came and also a new cpu. I changed to an Asus A7V-E with a AMD Duron upon it. The harddisk was a Western Digital with 20 GByte capacity. I began to increase my work on linux - mainly struggling with getting the system configured :) - and let me say, about almost half a year again this strange sound came from my beloved WD hdd. Concerned about this new shocking event I went to my retailer to make use of my warranty. Now I got this new hdd. A WD 40GByte diskspace. She lasted from October last year till a few days ago. She still is at work but only because there is no working hdd around and I am not willed to buy any new until I know where damages came from. Oh, I forgot, due to power blackout - a worker drilled right through the power cable - my AMD Duron died and I'm having a new system since three weeks now. It's a dual Intel Celeron 533 installed on a Abit BP6 Board. Rememberring, that I had lost documents of a high priority for me on my first hdd that gave this horrible concert I tried to rescue some data. Well, I wasn't able to rescue the important stuff but at least some personal data. Since the day I attached this old hdd to my system my WD 40 GByte sings the song of destruction. You know what I mean, this strange sound that twangs like a read/write header of a harddisks got stuck. Friends of mine, interested in hardware but not all really familiar with the stuff and also Microsoftlovers keep on telling me 'Linux is the source of all evil'. I'm pretty unused to make real analyzes and so I hope that someone could tell me how to find the source that leads to those hdd damages. Could it be a unlucky hardware setting of mine? Frank -- $ Hello World! $ I am [Ff]rank ;) 1024D/EC4CE5CC 2002-05-14 Frank Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fingerprint = 193D 62EC 03A5 1066 A951 4DA3 947A D578 EC4C E5CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]