I bought a 2.5 gig (Western Digital) IDE hard drive. It seems to be
making weirdness happen on the machine its on. (a pentium 133, 430vx
motherboard, 16mb ram). Whats happening on THIS machine is that the BIOS
autodetects it, but "locks up" on boot. If I disable hard drive in CMOS,
boots ok, gets into Linux (the boot set from the 8'th) and sees the drive,
but then says hdb-hdd "error resetting irq" or something similiar (from
last night, after my car broke down, and was already in a bad mood, so I
don't remember exactly) those drives don't exist on my system, so didn't
care about that. but when the Disks do anything to access the drive, the
light turns on and I get messages saying something about an error on dev
03:00 i/o error and lots of messages about "blablabla error status" and it
said either 30, or 50, and sometimes sayed 38 (or 58) don't remember..
(Sorry! I was very frustrated after the events of the night)
I'm a computer tech myself, and personally think its either the controller
on the drive itself, or its the IDE controller on the motherboard. (Which
is going to really suck because I bought the motherboard from the last
company I worked for who wants to charge me $25 for "cleaning" a keyboard
that its logic board wasn't initializing correctly at boot, 1/10 boots.
(It was UNDER WARRANTY). sorry for ranting.. this has not been a good
week.
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