[linux-audio-user] [OT] disaster redux

[Dan Mills]

On Saturday 11 June 2005 19:23, Dave Phillips wrote:
>   Now I'm running memtest again. I realized yesterday that I'd run it on
> only one RAM stick so I thought I'd better check again. However, at this
> point I'm starting to suspect a bad drive. But *two* bad drives in the
> system ?? As I mentioned in an earlier message, the machine failure
> occurred regardless of which drive I was using (RH9 on /dev/hdb, FC3 on
> /dev/hda).


Ahh, possible clue...
Are hda and hdb on the same IDE controller (and possibly even the same cable)?

I have seen this kind of problem with IDE RAID where one drive is locking up 
the IDE bus or the controller is faulty.... 

Try with a new IDE cable, and then with only one drive connected (may require 
some faffing about to get what was the slave drive to boot as the master). 

Just some thoughts.

HTH.
 
Regards, Dan.