i have a brand new seagate drive and an older quantum scsi and now that i've posted a few times on this the box hasn't hung for 36 hours, though saying that is probably the kiss of death - determinism, what's that? -
cheers bascule On Tuesday 02 July 2002 7:31 pm, you wrote: > I had a friend who was having problems such as this, i.e. somewhat > random lockups of the system. What he found out was that he had an > older Western Digital drive on the IDE bus that he originally was using > for swap and later wasn't even using the drive. As long as the drive > was on the IDE bus he had problems and when he removed the drive the > system became significantly more stable. > > What I am saying is that you may indeed have some type of drive issue > here. I personally won't buy Western Digital drives for a LINUX box. > > -Clayton > > -- Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. (Guards! Guards!)
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