Had the same problem with my box; disk would start acting strangely at
times;
Changed the disk for a new one, same story;
Then found that it stopped its strange doings if I wiggled the HD ribbon
cable; changed the cable and no more problems.
What will I do with this extra HD ? <VBG>
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Jim Reimer wrote:
> The computer has a new drive, and I've swapped the memory (was 16meg,
> now 32meg). Condition of memory is unknown - came out of an old
> machine - but it passes the POST ok.
>
> RH6.2 installed ok, and I left it sitting at the login prompt. A while
> later, I had the "drive not ready for command" messages scrolling up the
> screen again. Computer would not respond to CTRL-ALT-DEL. Pressed reset,
> and the computer wouldn't boot (just like with the old drive). Cycled
> power, it started booting, but now I have a corrupted file system again.
>
> It's been turned off all night, just turned it on, and it won't boot at
> all from the hard drive. Boots ok from floppy.
>
> Booting from the floppy (with the install disk) goes ok until it starts
> checking for drives, then I get "hda: lost interrupt" over and over
> and over.......
>
> P90, Award BIOS v4.50G, on-board IDE & floppy controllers.
> Everything related to APM in the BIOS is either 'off' or 'disabled'.
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