Mount the drive with another system and do an integrity (hardware) check of the drive.
Maybe you
have another linux box handy? I don't know if Windows will do a hardware check of a
non-windows
drive.
Good luck,
j
PS. As for convincing the seller, you probably will need to convince him with an OS he
(and you?)
is familiar with. Considering you yourself are not sure if the drive is faulty,
convincing him
could be that much more difficult....
--- Biagio LUCINI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, D. Stark - eSN wrote:
>
> > Biagio LUCINI wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, D. Stark - eSN wrote:
> > >
> > > > Did you install Mandrake 7.2 with the 'hard drive optimizations'
> > > > flagged? It may be having issues with the power management or something.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Derek
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well, usually I don't, because I know that it can corrupt the HD, but I
> > > can not be 100% sure. Is there a way tho verify whether I was mistaken?
> > >
> > > Regars,
> > > Biagio
> >
> > use hdparm -v /dev/hda
> >
>
> Hi - I have checked my values with yours, the only difference was
> multcount (and I did not have udma of course) I set multcount to 0 via
> init scripts, but the problem persists: just when I was sending an e-mail
> telling that it was fixed this way, my hd restarted to spin, I got the
> message ide busy state 0x80 + timeout. Could it be an hardware fault?
> How can I verify it? (even if the warranty does hold, since I use just
> linux and the vendor sold me the laptop with Win98, I do not know how to
> persuade him that it could be an hardware fault and not a software fault).
>
> Many thanks,
> Biagio Lucini
>
>
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