On Wed, 13 May 1998, Zoki wrote: >I had the same problem with a Quantum drive. Since I have lot of stuff >in the box I didn't hear the drive spin. My problem were the female pin >connectors in the drive power cable. Due to a lot of use they "opened" >and didn't "grab" the male power pins of the drive when insterted. These Hmm. I have a suspicious feeling that may be the same problem I've been having for a while now. Every so often, the drive spins down and I get lots of what prove to be spurious messages about ide timeouts & resets and so forth, and usually the kernel load average skyrockets to an insanely high number. I have to typically go in the box and push in the power connectors, and then it spins up again and the pending disk accesses complete. Sometimes though, I have to reboot, and sometimes the system will think the drive is gone when rebooted. I'll have to try your suggestion about the pins on the powercord. >Zoki. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] the change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] churches on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
