What kind of communication interface the UPS has (serial or usb)? Will the bios recognize the drives if you disconnect the ups, and again loose them when you hook it again and so on? In other words, does the problem reproducible? In case the ups has a serial interface, what is contents of /proc/interrupts with and without the ups?
Original message follows for reference only. There is no other content below: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:20:45PM +0200, solomon wrote: > 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. > ================================================================= 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]
