hi ya brian
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 1 IDE cable with nothing but 1 HD and 1 CDROM on it. I keep > things simple to avoid exactly such problems. take off the cdrom .. and i bet your problems will disappear and new disk does not imply it's a gooouuudd drive.. you should format with badblock check to confirm that there is no bad blocks on the disk - just do the badblock checks on say the first 4GB or however big your deb install is vs doing the whole 300GB of it -------- other issue .. - swap out the memory stick with a different vendor and see if the other memory stick reflects the same errors > Very odd that it does not ever seem to be a problem except on the > first power-up. could be marginal power supply too as the disk is still trying to power up from a cold boot ?? does it happen when you "properly" hit the reset switch when the disk is not yet mounted c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]