On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:38:47AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:22:38PM -0800, nate wrote: | | Derrick dman Hudson said: | | > I've got an old IDE disk (Western Digital AC2420H) that I want to copy | | > data off from. I plugged it into my fairly recent system (Gigabyte 7IEX4 | | | | looks like the disk is dead to me.. try running WD's diagnostic tools | | on it. | | The disk works in the Gateway2000 machine (manuf. 1993) that I took it | out of. That Gateway has no networking hardware in it and the only | compatible hardware I have is in use in my router system, buried on my | desk.
I unburied the router and determined that it's a hardware incompatibility. The disk worked fine in the router. The router's disk is a WDC2320H -- identical except for lower capacity. The router's disk works in my workstation because I used my workstation for installing and dist-upgrading it (8MB of RAM results in too much thrashing). I don't know why it was incompatible. -D -- "Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language." - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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