[lug] HD fail?

[Pedersen, Michael J]

> Well, I thought it was toast.  *sigh*  The repair suggestion 
> was good, but
> I'm not sure the drive was new when Mike Loseke threw Red Hat 
> 4.0 on it.  So
> far that box has had two external SCSI drives die and now one 
> internal IDE.
> Ah, well.

You might want to look into that motherboard and scsi controller more
carefully then.  Unless you move the box a lot, you shouldn't be seeing
those kind of failure rates.  There could be something coming from the
motherboard or scsi card which is causing that sort of death to happen to
you.