I hear you. Having built custome cables I know these things are a real PIA (pain in the ......) to make line up correctly. Hope it helps.
James On 01 Mar 2002 10:43:24 -0800 Ashley Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, now that you mentioned it.... once before when I've moved the box, > the BIOS complained about HDD being absent. Just opening the cover and > pressing the HDD cables in place seemed to make the problem go away! > > its too scary.... I'm going to stop at the store first thing to pick up > a replacement cable. (better safe, than sorry :) > > tks, > Ashley. > > On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 23:48, James wrote: > > Ashley, > > Had you at any time opened up the box and touched/checked the hdd > > cables? Why I'm asking this is because I had a simular problem about 2 > > years ago with a batch of mobo's that came in. The mobo's were fine but > > it seems that about 20 of them had cables that would "loose connectivity" > > on one or more wires. We found this out when the box after a normal > > shutdown just flat couldn't reboot. IF we performed fsck on a drive as it > > seemed to need it would hose the data so bad it wasn't funny. (same error > > on FreeBSD and Mandrake 7.1 boxes.) Found the problem when my roomate > > stuck his hand in to check a cable durring a boot and "poof" the box > > booted fine. All he had done was touch the cable for the ide. We replaced > > the ribbon cable and that same box has been serving web pages and other > > data for over a year and a half without a hitch. (Note the manufacturer > > replaced the cables and 3 drives that were permanently hosed without a > > blink.) > > > > James > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:18:51 -0500 (EST) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 28 Feb 2002, Ashley Moore wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 15:04, Ashley Moore wrote: > > > > > > > > thanks for the suggestion. > > > > > > > > just to verify, i tried once again to boot normally. but the boot > > > > process kept getting stuck after 'Ckeck kernel params....' > > > > > > > > i start in single user... > > > > could'nt see anything unusual with any of the startup scripts. so i > > > > issued 'init 3' and all came up as normal ! > > > > > > > > i rechecked logs, etc. nothing to change (as i saw it) so I went ahead > > > > and perfromed a shutdown -r and the system came back up as if nothing > > > > ever went wrong !!! ?? !!! > > > > > > > > any light on what might have gone wrong? > > > > > > Absolutely bizarre. The only thing I can pull out of the air is that > > > maybe a drive is not spinning up correctly? > > > > > > > > oh yeah, dunno if this will help - yesterday i successfully complied > > and > > > > installed wine-20020122 with reqd dependencies. > > > > > > > This shouldn't make any difference. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------=_1014968990-17242-1095 > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > -- > Ashley Moore. (CCNA,CNE,MC$E) > Sys.Admin & IT Consultant. >
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