On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a problem installing OpenSUSE10.2 on a pc with a SCSI system disk. > I was running SuSE 9.3 (professional edition, bought), but was having > problems doing an upgrade, so I decided to do a clean install of the new > OS. I went through the initialisation for the installation, sorted out > which disk to install to and how to partition it, and started it off. > First step it does is to format the disk. It got as far as having done > 74%, at which point it hung. After about 3 hours it decided it had done > 80%; however I have now left it overnight and it still has done no more > formatting of the disk (apparently). By "hung", I mean that it has not > progressed; however the little cursor clock is still spinning and I can > click on "help" which tells me that it can take some time to format a disk > (5 minutes for a 4GB disk!!! This one is 36.2GB, and it has taken 18 hours > so far). > > What I would like to know is; is there a software issue here with SuSE on > SCSI disks; or is it likely to be a hardware issue, i.e. a fault with the > disk. I do remember having a similar problem some months back when I put > SuSE9.3 on the machine. If there is a hardware issue here, I can just get > a new disk and use that (in fact the machine has a 80GB second disk which > could be substituted). If there is a software issue, I'm rather more > stuck, (particularly as I have probably formatted over the existing OS > now). > > Thanks in advance for any help here. >
Sounds like a hardware problem. It's either the drive going bad or the power supply starting to go bad. I had similar problems and it turned out to be the power supply. I unplugged a couple of devices from the PS and it ran fine for a couple of weeks and then errors started again. I replaced the PS and have no problems since. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
