On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:22:53 +1300
Stephen Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for your prompt reply. I misunderstood you last time, I thought
> you were suggesting that one of the drives was defective.
> I tried swapping the CDROM, but the x336 are 1U rackmounted servers,
> and they use custom IDE cables. As I don't have access to any other
> IBM rackmounted servers, I don't have any other devices to swap in. I
> could order another drive from IBM, but as I know this problem exists
> for others I think it's unlikely that this is the source and I don't
> think that it's worth the cost.

It's been a while since I last opened up one of our x336's (don't like
them, x335s are much more stable in my experience), I thought they had a
standard IDE port somewhere on the motherboard next to the PSU. Perhaps
you can give that one a shot.

// nick

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