Wisja.net wrote: > I do agree with Chris, it seems the server is pretty old. I dont agree on the > controller on the motherboard side, it will probably be the controller (on > the PCB) on > the HDD itself.
I've seen both, but more frequently (in my experience) it's old motherboards that die. I've got a pile of old 20, 40, 80GB drives that we've pulled from dead boxes that are perfectly good. (For that matter, I have an old 250MB and 500MB drive that I used in my college years, and I fired one of them up in an enclosure to pull an old term paper a few months ago!) I suppose there is a good way to determine if the problem is the drive or the mobo controller. Pull the drive and pop it into an enclosure, or into a known-good computer, and see if it is properly recognized and can be booted. If so, then that would be a good indicator that the drive is good and the mobo is bad. If it does not get recognized by another system, then you have agreement from 2 computers that the drive doesn't work as it should. But again... given the age of the hardware, how long do you expect it to run without another problem? -- Chris Gebhardt VIRTBIZ Internet Services Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx