That drive was just replaced in January. I had a problem where my old drive
got noisy, so Maxtor replaced it for me. Hard drive quality sucks nowadays.
Must be why some manufacturers are cutting back to 1 year warranties on
drives.
Hompage
www.public.asu.edu/~swiebel/index.html
>From: Michael Havens <bmike1@vei.net>
>Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:29:01 -0700
>
>So then, there is a way to look at the drive? Ohhhhh. I know:
>boot with a livecd and then copy the data. Ewwwwe, if he has a lot of data
>he
>could install the new drive, install Linux, and then run midnite commander
>to
>copy everything with the attributes even.
>:)~mike~(:
>On Sunday 11 April 2004 12:05, technomage wrote:
> > I've seen that on drives that are starting to go bad. windows won't
>catch
> > until BSOD (by then, its waaaaaaay too late). better to backup what data
> > you can, and then get a new drive. that one is going to get
>progressively
> > more unreliable with time.
> >
> > Technomage Hawke
> >
> > On Sunday 11 April 2004 11:00 am, steve wiebelhaus wrote:
> > > My system won't boot Linux any more. During boot, it works up to where
>it
> > > starts giving the error message "hdb: lost interrupt" just after rw
> > > mounting the partitions. It just keeps repeating that over and over,
> > > won't do anything else. When I googled, some sites said that this
>problem
> > > had to do with dma, and that turning dma off would fix. I tried that,
> > > along with some other kernel parameters "ide=nodma, noapic, noacpi,
> > > noapm, nodma" None helped. I can still boot into WindowsXP, which is
>on
> > > the next partition on the same hard drive. I can also boot with the
>Suse
> > > LiveCD. Using the LiveCD, I can access both hard drives, both use the
>dma
> > > option.
> > > Any ideas of what could be causing the lost interrupt, or how to fix
>it?
> > >
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