Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-31 Thread Civileme
Kirk McElhearn wrote: > This is a resend of a message originally sent on > mercredi 29 mars 2000 9:08:13 > > On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have > said: > > >Your hdparm is too "aggressive." Your hard drive/controller can't deal with > >that level of HD

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > >What do you mean, "reformatting"? If you did a low level format of an IDE > >hard drive, you may have destroyed it. The drive will appear to accept > >writes, and will retain data for a while, but not for long, say 0-25 > >hours. > > > >When IDE drives first c

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-29 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 29/03/00 18:48, Charles Curley [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: > >What do you mean, "reformatting"? If you did a low level format of an IDE >hard drive, you may have destroyed it. The drive will appear to accept >writes, and will retain data for a while, but not for long, say 0-25

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-29 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 29/03/00 18:44, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >> I have managed to my computer to boot by removing the Zip drive. I first >> tried changing it from master to slave, but that did nothing. >> >Ok. Is the ZIP drive on the same controller as the hard >drive that has L

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I have managed to my computer to boot by removing the Zip drive. I first > tried changing it from master to slave, but that did nothing. > Ok. Is the ZIP drive on the same controller as the hard drive that has Linux? Are there multiple drives? > > What's wierd i

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:17:28PM +0200, Kirk McElhearn wrote: -> This is a resend of a message originally sent on -> mercredi 29 mars 2000 9:08:13 -> -> On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have -> said: -> -> >Your hdparm is too "aggressive." Your hard d

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-29 Thread Kirk McElhearn
This is a resend of a message originally sent on mercredi 29 mars 2000 9:08:13 On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >Your hdparm is too "aggressive." Your hard drive/controller can't deal with >that level of HD access "optimization." It may be th

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-29 Thread Kirk McElhearn
This is a resend of a message originally sent on mercredi 29 mars 2000 9:08:13 On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >Your hdparm is too "aggressive." Your hard drive/controller can't deal with >that level of HD access "optimization." It may be th