no, it's been working untouched for a year or so, and problem just
surfaced today. now it's to the point that it won't even boot.
drive must be gone.
-jdr-
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> I bet you have "green" power management features enabled, so the drive spins
> down when idle, but for some reason isn't spinning back up (or at least not
> promptly enough to satisfy the kernel. Check your BIOS settings.
>
> At 02:07 PM 8/1/00 -0500, Jim Reimer wrote:
> >No network card, no modem.
> >90MHz Pentium, 16meg ram, on-board ide
> >Maxtor 90432D2 drive
> >Red Hat 6.0
> >
> >It's looking more and more like it's the drive. As long as I keep using
> >it, it's ok. But if I go off for a while it's dead when I come back - like
> >the drive's going to sleep and not waking back up. Rebooting won't wake
> >it up, but cycling the power switch will. Could be power supply problem (?).
> ...
>
> --
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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