when you changed the cable did you have one drive on each cable or more than 
one drive on each IDE channel?

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 12:48, you wrote:
> In my case, I've changed cables (used both 40 & 80 pin), changed memory,
> video, NIC, HDD and the only thing I haven't tried is disabling the onboard
> sound and using a PCI sound card.
>
> On Monday 18 March 2002 10:33 pm, you wrote:
> > One more thing you might want to check/replace... the ribbon cables. 
> > I've had some in the past that with a slight bump would make the data on
> > the drive APEAR corrupt even though the corruption was in the data
> > transfer not the drive.  Then when I'd try to fsck it... ooops.  Since
> > then if it's mission critical I've found that light twisting and pulling
> > (Note I said light) to check connection quality has saved me a ton of
> > headaches.  Did you change cables when you changed drives?  A good way to
> > check if you can is when a drive seems to be bad, pop it in another box
> > and see what happens.  Many a time it's tested good on another box and my
> > problems were cables first ram second.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:57:08 +0000
> >
> > Nick Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Well, I heard a funny story once. A couple of workers from a big
> > > nameless company where woking on (WindBlows) laptops on an American
> > > Airlines flight. Started out fine, but after a few hours things started
> > > to go wrong and eventually both PCs came down in a heap and wouldn't
> > > reboot. It turned out that there where magnets in the tray tables,
> > > designed to stop them rattling during flight. As the disks whirred
> > > round, they where slowly erasing themselves. Unless your have a chassis
> > > speaker close to your drives, I doubt that this is your problem, but
> > > who knows...
> > >
> > > Nick.
> > >
> > > Ken Thompson wrote:
> > > >On Monday 18 March 2002 03:36 am, you wrote:
> > > >>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've had nearly the same problem and have found no solution yet.
> > > >AMD Athalon 1.2GHZ
> > > >512 RAM
> > > >Epox 8KTA3+
> > > >Matrox millineum 450
> > > >LinkSys NIC
> > > >Onboard sound
> > > >USR Hardware modem V.92
> > > >I've had the mainboard warranteed and have changed out memory, HDD,
> > > > Video and NIC cards.
> > > >I still get a slow data corruption and end up having to re-install to
> > > > clean it up.

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