Yes, it's the same machine. An HP Pavilion 7940, PIII, 128mb, 80gb. As a sw guy, I always suspect hw first... Actually, the first time this happened, the disk was new and I hadn't done anything that I thought would affect the XFree86 installation. It failed on the second day. I didn't know what it was, but I didn't know it wasn't the new disk.
For the re-install, I partitioned the disk by hand and chose a somewhat reduced set of packages. It's been working for about a week.
It seems to me that symptoms of drive or controller problems would not repeat in the same files in two different partitionings, so I'm wondering if there are any known issues relating to filesystem corruptions with symptoms similar to mine.
Ben Russo wrote:
carlsbad-nick wrote:
I suspected HW the first time, but now that it's happened again after a complete reinstall (and manual repartitioning), I'm thinking software (or user error...) Will appreciate any help or add'l info.
Nick Nichols
Is it the same machine?
Why do you think that doing a full re-install of the OS would fix a hardware problem?
Have you "tweaked" your IDE controller? Turning on hdparm settings?
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