Barry Drake wrote:
> Hitachi boot disk with a diagnostic/repair tool told be that the boot
> sector had an irrecoverable mechanical error.
What, exactly, did it say? Did a google of the phrase turn anything up?
> This entire saga doesn't make any sense at all to me. Any thoughts?
Can you bo
On 18/03/11 18:37, Barry Drake wrote:
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:42 +, Rob Beard wrote:
You might find it could be an SATA cable. Chances are you're not going
to find a big IDE drive easily now as everything is going down the route
of SATA.
First thing I did was try a new SATA cable. I fou
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:42 +, Rob Beard wrote:
> You might find it could be an SATA cable. Chances are you're not going
> to find a big IDE drive easily now as everything is going down the route
> of SATA.
First thing I did was try a new SATA cable. I found a 320 GiB IDE drive
at Amazon q
On 18/03/11 17:03, Barry Drake wrote:
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 12:40 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
I'd check if there's an update for the BIOS, I've seen various
drives/chipset configurations have weird issues over time :)
Thanks. There is an update. But rather than risk frying my wife's
mothe
: bdr...@crosswire.org, UK Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 12:40 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> I'd check if there's an update for the BIOS, I've seen various
> drives/chipset configurations have weird issues over tim
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 12:40 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> I'd check if there's an update for the BIOS, I've seen various
> drives/chipset configurations have weird issues over time :)
Thanks. There is an update. But rather than risk frying my wife's
motherboard, I've taken the easy way out fo
On 18 March 2011 12:20, Barry Drake wrote:
> Hi there ..
>
> I'm really scratching my head over this one. My wife's computer has a
> ALiveNF6P-VSTA motherboard. This has one IDE connector and four SATA
> ports. It was running Windows 2000 on a SATA drive, so I installed a
> second SATA dri
Hi there ..
I'm really scratching my head over this one. My wife's computer has a
ALiveNF6P-VSTA motherboard. This has one IDE connector and four SATA
ports. It was running Windows 2000 on a SATA drive, so I installed a
second SATA drive (250 GiB) and put Ubuntu 10.04 on it. I also
install
