[lug] Reboot Problem

[rm at fabula.de]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
> On Behalf Of Zan Lynx
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:14 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: RE: [lug] Reboot Problem
> 
> It might also be a bad IDE cable.  Especially if you are using those
> fancy rounded cables, or if you have bent or folded a flat cable.  I
> just recently had the disappearing drive problem in one of my systems,
> and it was the cable.
> 
> It is very strange watching a Linux system when the hard drive suddenly
> isn't available anymore.  It runs fine, as long as you never need to
> save or load anything :-)

I once had a customers webserver running without its main disk for almost
6 month ... 

   Ralf