[lug] Reboot Problem

[Bill Wimsatt]

Ahhh, Very good idea! The cable is a bit ratty. A cheap solution, if it
works! Thank you! I happen to have an extra brand-new cable looking for
a home. It was interesting in Linux's symptoms.

Regards,
Bill 

-----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 :-)

> 
> After more testing, I think that the problem is either a bad IDE
> controller or a bad drive. On some reboots, I do not see any IDE
drives.
> I am using Western Digital drives. Unfortunately I only have SCSI
drives
> to swap into the system, so...
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
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