I think you have bad sectors on your hard drives. And everytime you reboot
they keep spreading.
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Jim Reimer wrote:
> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:03:33 -0500
> From: Jim Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: crash!!
>
> 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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