Just the one drive on tha first channel, CD & ZIP on second channel. I think I just have a flaky MoBo, even the new one won't run 98SE with the NIC and the Matrox vid without locking up. Take either one out and it's fine <in winderz>..... Runs much better in mdk8.1 I'm testing 8.2 right now using an 18Gb Samsung, an ATI all in wonder AGP 8Mb vid and 3Com NIC, so far, so good..... On Tuesday 19 March 2002 11:32 am, you wrote: > 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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