11 Jun
2005
11 Jun
'05
4:51 p.m.
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.