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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