are these both western digital hard drives? have you considered putting each 
drive on it's own ide channel?


On Monday 18 March 2002 05:56, you wrote:
> hi karine,
>
> i've seen similar things on our hardware. most of the time the problem
> was bios-related stuff (bios "in general", dma-settings, prefetch-modes,
> ...) and almost everytime the problems went away by either disabling dma
> (ouch, that hurts, i know) using hdparm or by upgrading buggy bioses.
>
> did you ever check /var/log/messages to see, if the kernel reports some
> problems with your harddrives?
>
> udo
>
> Am Mon, 2002-03-18 um 11.36 schrieb Karine ZUERCHER:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I got a tremendous problem here.
> > I shut down my MDK8.1 perfectly, but when I restarted it, it says I have
> > a corrupted filesystem that needs to be checked. Sometimes the checking
> > doesn't pass and I have to do fsck in maintenance. This time the rc.d
> > files are corrupted and I can't start at all anymore.
> > Well, I know I could just install again from scratch, but the trick is,
> > this happened on MDK8.0, then on MDK8.1. I thought the HD was getting
> > old, so I installed it on a totally new one. After a couple weeks, there
> > I am again.
> >
> > (I need to remark, that I couldn't install MDK by default (failure in
> > uploading into or reading the memory, but I had to simulate having only
> > 64MB RAM instead of 512MB)
> >
> > (My Hardware:
> > Intel Pentium III 733MHz
> > ASUS P2BF
> > 512MB SDRAM
> > Graphic Card: ATI Rage 128 - 32MB TVout
> > SCSI adapter: AHA-2940 U2W
> > Pioneer DVD-ROM (ATAPI DVD-106s) 16x
> > CDRW Yamaha CRW8824s (SCSI)
> > Sound Card: Creative Live
> >
> > HD config:
> > hda: (7500rpm UDMA66)
> > hda1        2.4GB   vfat (c:\)
> > hda5        3GB     ext2 (/mnt/old-home)
> > hda6        256MB   swap
> > hda7        4GB     ext3 (/mnt/old-root)
> > hda8        7GB     vfat
> >
> > hdb: (7500rpm 40GB)
> > hdb1        20GB    vfat
> > hdb5        4GB     ext3 (/)
> > hdb6        512MB   swap
> > hdb7        15GB    ext3 (/home)
> > )
> >
> > Where is the problem?
> > Hardware conflict?
> > Hardware damaged?
> > Configuration?
> >
> > I dearly hope someone can help me here. Please tell me if you need some
> > more information.
> >
> > In Kindneass
> > Karine
> >
> > --
> > Karine ZUERCHER
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ----
> >
> >
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