I have a strange problem on my new computer. It may be hardware related, but I decided to ask here first before going back to the store.
I have 1 sata drive (sda1), 2 ide drives (hda, hdb) and 2 optical drives (hdc, hdd). Everything was working fine for a few weeks until I had to re-boot to hook the machine to my UPS. Now, for no (apparent) reason, at boot, the computer doesn't recognize hda and hdb (the first IDE interface). For that reason, I couldn't boot LINUX (fstab errors). I used a rescue disk to edit fstab and got the computer running. Strangely enough, I can manually mount the partitions on hda and hdb, even though BIOS didn't seem to see them. Of course, although this works, it's not a solution since I don't want to have to manually mount partitions. Aside from the obvious fact that Mandrake seems to handle my ide disks better than the motherboard does, can anyone tell me if I'm looking at a hardware or software problem? I'm not including any details about motherboard, BIOS, etc since, if this is a hardware problem, this entire message is actually OT. TIA -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
