On 09/03/04 09:53 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed:
> On 09/02/04 08:56 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed:
>
> Just for the record, that was definitely the wrong command.
>
> Had to boot to another kernel again. Lots of corruption on the root
> partition.
Non-recoverabl
On 09/02/04 08:56 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed:
>
> The ata controller(s) are, from the /var/run/dmesg.boot:
>
> atapci0: port
> 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x374-0x377,0x170-0x177,0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 mem
> 0xfebffc00-0xfebf irq 18 at device 31.1 on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on a
On 09/02/04 01:23 PM, Kendall Gifford sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:40:00 -0400, Louis LeBlanc
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, it's probably not an old BOIS, since the machine is less than 3
> > months old. I checked the BIOS after the system locked up, and it was
>
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:40:00 -0400, Louis LeBlanc
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, it's probably not an old BOIS, since the machine is less than 3
> months old. I checked the BIOS after the system locked up, and it was
> enabled. I disabled it, and still couldn't boot until I used the
> generic
Although highly unlikely, but could you check your BIOS and enable DMA
if there is any setting for it? Alternatively, old BIOSses are really
messy about handling New hard drives. So reflashing the BIOS is also a
good option if your mo'bo manufacturer offers something new. Also you
did not indicate
On 08/28/04 09:04 AM, Subhro sat at the `puter and typed:
> Well it is really unfortunate that hard disks don't need a reason to
> die. Maybe you are right. Are you using a 40 conductor or a 80
> conductor cable? You can also try disabling DMA by setting the values
> displayed by sysctl -a | grep d
