Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread ed tharp
really, no matter what slot the nic is in and was the vid AGP or PCI and what slot was it in? On Tuesday 19 March 2002 20:25, you wrote: Just the one drive on tha first channel, CD ZIP on second channel. I think I just have a flaky MoBo, even the new one won't run 98SE with the NIC and the

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread Ken Thompson
I'll have to admit to having a temper tantrum about that time and didn't do a total and complete swap out. Winderz always get's me ire up G. On Wednesday 20 March 2002 05:29 am, you wrote: really, no matter what slot the nic is in and was the vid AGP or PCI and what slot was it in? On

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 04:43, you wrote: Yes I agree with Ed , western Digital Hard Disks have problem Sharing IDE CABLE , this question may destroy your disks. Got another go figure with a Western Digitalis . On one box, I have to set the drive as Master, on another, the *same* drive

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-19 Thread Karine ZUERCHER
Thanks a LOT to all your inputs, and especially Brian Parish. I located the problem with the memtest-x86.bin (on MDK CD1 /images/ directory): Faulty memory Again thanks a lot for your quick answers! Karine -- Karine ZUERCHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-19 Thread Ken Thompson
In my case, I've changed cables (used both 40 80 pin), changed memory, video, NIC, HDD and the only thing I haven't tried is disabling the onboard sound and using a PCI sound card. On Monday 18 March 2002 10:33 pm, you wrote: One more thing you might want to check/replace... the ribbon

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-19 Thread ed tharp
when you changed the cable did you have one drive on each cable or more than one drive on each IDE channel? On Tuesday 19 March 2002 12:48, you wrote: In my case, I've changed cables (used both 40 80 pin), changed memory, video, NIC, HDD and the only thing I haven't tried is disabling the

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-19 Thread Ken Thompson
Just the one drive on tha first channel, CD ZIP on second channel. I think I just have a flaky MoBo, even the new one won't run 98SE with the NIC and the Matrox vid without locking up. Take either one out and it's fine in winderz. Runs much better in mdk8.1 I'm testing 8.2 right now using

[expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread Karine ZUERCHER
Hi everyone, I got a tremendous problem here. I shut down my MDK8.1 perfectly, but when I restarted it, it says I have a corrupted filesystem that needs to be checked. Sometimes the checking doesn't pass and I have to do fsck in maintenance. This time the rc.d files are corrupted and I can't

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread udo rader
hi karine, i've seen similar things on our hardware. most of the time the problem was bios-related stuff (bios in general, dma-settings, prefetch-modes, ...) and almost everytime the problems went away by either disabling dma (ouch, that hurts, i know) using hdparm or by upgrading buggy bioses.

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread Brian Parish
Karine, I think you have diagnosed it youself. Sounds like flaky memory. I would be running a memory checker very intensively before installing again. There was a thread on these a few days ago, either here or on newbie. Check the archives with keywords like memory check and you should find

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread Brian Parish
Karine, Haven't seen my reply on the list yet, but since sending it I have checked the archive and the advice from Tom can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg91074.html In case the original reply never makes it, what I said was: I think you have diagnosed it

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread Ken Thompson
On Monday 18 March 2002 03:36 am, you wrote: Hi everyone, I got a tremendous problem here. I shut down my MDK8.1 perfectly, but when I restarted it, it says I have a corrupted filesystem that needs to be checked. Sometimes the checking doesn't pass and I have to do fsck in maintenance.

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread Nick Thompson
Well, I heard a funny story once. A couple of workers from a big nameless company where woking on (WindBlows) laptops on an American Airlines flight. Started out fine, but after a few hours things started to go wrong and eventually both PCs came down in a heap and wouldn't reboot. It turned

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread ed tharp
are these both western digital hard drives? have you considered putting each drive on it's own ide channel? On Monday 18 March 2002 05:56, you wrote: hi karine, i've seen similar things on our hardware. most of the time the problem was bios-related stuff (bios in general, dma-settings,

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread James
One more thing you might want to check/replace... the ribbon cables. I've had some in the past that with a slight bump would make the data on the drive APEAR corrupt even though the corruption was in the data transfer not the drive. Then when I'd try to fsck it... ooops. Since then if it's