I know this isn't strictly Mandrake, so apologies. My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose.
A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I rebooted. It started to boot, then stopped with the error message: Partition Check: hda: <4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x21 hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting the hard drive activity light was permanently on. This error message means nothing to me. I have tried installing two different Linux distros, but neither would install. I then found my old Windows98 CD and tried installing that - it wouldn't. I ran the complete Maxtor diagnostic program, but the results were that everything was OK. I have formatted the hard drive, and tried various things with FDISK. The drive still can't be used. Googling brings up nothing of apparent use. Can the hard drive be sorted, or is it only fit to be thrown away? Any ideas will be gratefully received. Many thanks Keith
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