good advices... didn't know about the atacontrol thank you all...
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
>
>> can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
>
> Yes, with a 40-to-44-pin IDE adapter. The pins on a 2.5-inch laptop
> drive are spaced closer together than on a 3.
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
Yes, with a 40-to-44-pin IDE adapter. The pins on a 2.5-inch laptop
drive are spaced closer together than on a 3.5-inch drive.
Before doing that, though, it's worth downloading a copy of the Fre
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
>
>> yea.. that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get
>> it
>> to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.
>>
>> is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?
>
> Other than mounting the drive on another machine to see how much you
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
No. Another poster sent you comments on that. You need to get a Kit.
Should not cost much though. Basically some mounting brackets and a
cable... although for your case probably just the cable an
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
yea.. that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get it
to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.
is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?
Other than mounting the drive on another machine to see how much you can
read, not mu
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
> >> fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
> >> CANNOT READ BLOCK:
> >> evry time is different number and eventually i get:
> >> ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
> >> ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
> >
> > Sounds like the HD may
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
>
>> fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
>> CANNOT READ BLOCK:
>> evry time is different number and eventually i get:
>> ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
>> ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
>
> Sounds like the HD may be near a
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
CANNOT READ BLOCK:
evry time is different number and eventually i get:
ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal crash.
I sug
hi all...
something bad happened last noght to a machine... something crashed...
fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
CANNOT READ BLOCK:
evry time is different number and eventually i get:
ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
what's nex
