On Saturday 14 June 2003 01:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2003 07:51 pm, Lorne wrote: > > I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during > > install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are > > you running hdparm and doing anything to soup up to UDMA or anything? > > What about when you install. regular or expert install? Do you click the > > option on hard drives that activates LBA or UDMA or something. I'm sorry > > I can't remember what that option is. > > Er, forgot to say that hdparm is installed and gives this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]# hdparm /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > multcount = 16 (on) > IO_support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > geometry = 78167/64/32, sectors = 160086528, start = 0 > > I do install as expert, don't even remember that option under v9.1 download > edition though - everything was pretty automagical. :-)
OK, so i'm pretty much convinced it's not a bad drive.. you probably already tried, but did you fsck / ? (the one at boot doesn't count as AFAIK it's run with certain parameters not to check/fix some aspects of the file system) Damian
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