On Tue Sep 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM UTC, Nick Holland wrote: > On 9/15/25 18:46, ma...@openmail.cc wrote: > Really, give serious thought to #4. I'm all for recycling old stuff, but > this is a really old machine to do something desktop-ish with. Not enough > processor or memory to use a modern browser on. Slow disk access (pciide, > which amittedly beats wdc(4), but ... horrible compared to ahci(4)). > Oh My. Did you really put a 2TB drive on an pciide(4) controller? I don't > think I've ever tried something that wacky. Dang. I don't think that's at > all related to your problem, but I do think that combination indicates you > need to reconsider some life choices. Whatever you are planning to do with > this, 2TB on a pciide(4) controller is gonna be painful. > > So...while someone more skilled than me might be able to give you some > advice to fix this machine, I really question if that's your best course of > action. > > (I'm sitting here looking at my not-yet-in-production 24T drive and wondering > how many days it takes to fsck after tripping over the power cord when > attached to a pciide(4) system...wonder if I got any of those left...) > > Nick.
Nick, You bring up an interesting point here about pciide.... Is IDE emulation turned on in the BIOS? I'd switch it to AHCI and do a reinstall. I have never heard of an i5 with physical IDE! Said hardware is newer than what I'm typing on right now. -Henrich
