> 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.
Thanks for the suggestion - I have turned the machine over to our hardware guys who are running some tests on the drive. Gavin > > -- > Ken Schneider > UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
