Nicholas: Great question. I don't have the answer. I guess what I need to do is power up the old machines and copy the BIOS data for each one... I am going to find my windows 98se installation disc and see, just for fun, if it will allow 98se to install. As well, I plan on calling Seagate today, to get their input. I believe it's not a drive manufacturer issue though, as it's happened to a different made drive too, and none of these drives was tossing any hint of imminent failure. One in fact, had just been installed less than a month. It seems like it's all having to do with this new box I built a year ago. The box worked fine, then I stored it away, in a garage a while.. And revived it a few weeks ago.. The sata drive in it worked just fine too. It's like this new machine is jinxed..
>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Nicholas Leippe >Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:28 AM >To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, >High Traffic >Subject: Re: Mysterious Hard Drive > >On Mon Mar 16 2009 08:11:43 Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: >> > I really need some help. I recently decided to move a hard drive, >> > from a machine with a failing power supply fan to a newer machine. >> > The drive is an 80 GB SATA, and worked just fine until I powered >> > down on the machine it was in. >> > >> > After installing it in this newer box, I booted up, to >find that the >> > drive was undreadable. I didn't get any hard drive failure >notices, >> > just could not read the drive. > >Does the bios on the previous motherboard enforce any sort of >security? Did it perhaps enable the ATA security feature on the drive? > > > >/* >PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >Don't fear the penguin. >*/ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
