I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky - when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem (files and directories becoming block special files that could not be deleted, lots of filesystem errors), so I re-installed hamm from scratch with a re-format of the disk. Unfortunately I have now started to lose files and directories again. Running e2fsck produced a lot of files in /lost+found.
I would just go and replace the disk drive were it not for the fact that during my installation of hamm from CD-ROM the installation paused a number of times giving errors from the CD-ROM drive: IRQ timeout Status 0xd0 Although the installation seemed to work OK initially, this makes me wonder if I have a flaky IDE controller on the motherboard (in which case a new PC may be the better option given its age - Pentium 100 vintage). Does anyone have any idea whether the above points to controller or disk failure, or know how I could determine which was at fault? Thanks for any pointers, Kevin -- Dr Kevin Scott Philips Electronics UK Limited Patents and Trade Marks Department Tel: +44 1293 815281 Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Fax: +44 1293 815060 Surrey RH1 5HA, UK E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
