On Sat, 12 May 2001, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Played musical chairs w/ the drives > on the ide cables, the whole nine yards. Nothing helped. Suddenly, the HD > started 'clunking' ominously. Went and got a 'new' 1.2GB HD from the local > computer shack for about $10-15, and magically everything worked perfectly. > Played around w/ it for a while, messed w/ RH 6.2 on the system. Now trying > Debian 2.2r2 on it, and it worked ok, other than it took literally a day or > so for it to crunch it's way thru the secondary install. Ended up rebooting > and installing the packages from dselect. But, again, one CD wouldn't be > recognized. It was an extra, so I wasn't too worried.
I would also check the power supply unit. -- Ah Khoo says life will never give you grapes and lavenders everytime occasionally, she will throw you a durian...