The "Quantum fireball" disk drives have a very high failure rate. At work we have
replaced every one of them.
Roly
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:55:45 -0700
"Dimitris Adamopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Need some help here!
> Yesterday I installed mandrake 8.2 on my oldie. P133 with 72mb RAM and
> a 10gb quantum fireball.
> When I finished the installation everything seemed to be right.
> The system was stable. Only when I had the kde up was a bit slow,
> something expected of cource.
> After about an hour the system went on "stand by" mode and the monitor
> turned off.
> When I moved the mouse to wake up the system the monitor turned on but
> the only think I saw was a stucked screenshot!
> My system was crashed.
> I did my best to recover it but the only way to move on was to push
> the power off button.
> When I tried to reboot I saw this f.. message:
> PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL
>
> Due to my old BIOS the primary disk it seems to be only 8gb aprox.
> but during the 8.2 installation progress the disk was seemed to be
> 10gb(actual size)
> What happened?
> I am a new linux user and I would really like to know what went wrong.
> Thanks .. Until my next crash!
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