Could the controller on the MB be at issue? (not to just say "blame hardware") but someone else mentioned hardware (the drives), but both went bad real fast. If it was the Primary IDE, then Secondary IDE interface failing in that order what if the MB HDC was slowly burning up itself?
JAT /B ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren R. Gitelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 16:56 Subject: weird hard drive failure > I've had 2 hard drives fail on 2 different Dell precision workstations > (420) within the last week. Wondering if anyone has ever seen the scenario > below: > Both drives were IBM Deskstar 60 GB. Both drives were configured as > stand-alone (i.e., not part of raid), and had 2 partitions, one swap the > other data. Neither drive was a boot drive (they contained data). > I turned on dma access to speed up the drive > /sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hdb > All seemed to work fine on check > /sbin/hdparm /dev/hda > I/O support = 1 (32-bit) > using_dma = 1 (on) > > 1 day later for one drive and 2 minutes later for the other there are read > errors on the drive and it is no longer recognized by the system, like it's > not even there anymore. On boot up the bios doesn't see the drive. I've > tried switching the connector, setting the drive to master or slave, using > tomsrtbt to start the system and seeing if it can see the drive, using Dell > Diagnostics which runs in DOS. The drive cannot be seen but it sounds as if > it turns on. This does not seem to be a case of corrupt data. > Any thoughts? > Darren > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Darren R. Gitelman, M.D. > Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer¹s Disease Center > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.brain.northwestern.edu > Voice: (312) 908-9023 > Fax: (312) 908-8789 > Northwestern Univ., 320 E. Superior St., Searle 11-470, Chicago, IL 60611 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
