Hi all, Last week I managed to "create" one of the most interesting system failures I have so far encountered in more than ten years of using Linux. I had done some hardware changes on the box, and it is a bit full in there with IDE, SCSI, various serial, parallel and other cables, some HDs, CD etc. in a mini tower case. I managed to close the box, anyway. When I booted, some partitions on the IDE HD did not pass the fs test. I thought my really old 1.3 GB HD had finally gone. So I ran the required manual fsck on it and moved all the inconsistent stuff to lost+found. But somehow the thing looked weird, not really like a broken HD. I opened the box again and found that, stuffing everything in when I had closed it before, I must have had loosened the IDE cable from the HD at one end of the connector, so that only some pins were disconnected. This led to a very "interesting" failure.
Data were not really lost, because I had complete backups of everything (in the garage, just in case the house burns down...). But it took some time to tidy up and restore everything. So this was the first time I wished they were using connectors with safety clips (is that the correct term?) for the IDE and SCSI connections. Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
