Russell Polo wrote:
I have a weird behavior on my AMD64 dual core FC 10 computer.
The machine has both IDE and SATA buses. I have the "old" drive on the
IDE interface and a new 1GB drive on the Sata, I also have a DVD
burner on the IDE side.
It seems that sometime after boot, (if they aren't being used) the
machine will "forget" about the IDE devices. The mounted drive becomes
inaccessible and the devices can not be read. Not sure on the time, it
is probably more than 30 minutes so it's hard to test.
I have learned that a silly script that just does a "ls" on the old
drive every 30 seconds seems to keep it around.
I also seem to get kernel oops reports associated with losing the
drives. ( I get a "request to send report" ) when I restart.
Once I lose the drives, a reboot is not enough to get them back. It
takes a full shutdown and restart.
The recent discussion of BIOS problems has got me thinking this might
be a good place to look for a solution. I had been thinking it was a
kernel problem that would probably bee fixed by an update, There have
been several updates and I haven't seen a change in behavior. (I have
been dealing with this for about 6 months)
I have been out of the hardware side of things for so long I probably
have been demoted to "newbie" on the issue, I'm not even sure how to
tell you what motherboard I have installed. Any guidance would be
appreciated.
--Russell
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I found GRUB to cause failure on mixed disk systems. SATA/SCSI caused
major damage, and SATA/USB
was causing confusion on bootup. I switched to LILO and the problem is gone.
Just something to try.
Louis
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