Thanx, for all of your suggestions. Unfortunately as far as i can
tell, there is no way to turn off the HDD in the bios. And according
to the log messages on the LTSP client, it continues to try to access
the HDD even after booting. So i guess my best option is to remove
the HDD. I wanted to avo
On Friday 19 January 2007 04:21, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> I have a 2 year old laptop with a broken (click of death) HDD.
> I figured, since LTSP doesn't use the local HDD, that this would make
> the perfect LTSP Client.
>
> I thought that the clicking would stop after PXE started but the
> clickin
On Friday 19 January 2007 08:21, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> I tried to see if there was a way to turn off the drive in the BIOS,
> but there was no option for it. The only other way to do this is for
> me to open up the laptop and remove the drive completely.
Why not do that then? Almost always t
The kernel IDE driver still loads even if you're PXE booting. The
driver will either be compiled into the kernel or it will be loaded as a
loadable kernel module. Jim's approach was sound with regard to putting
the kernel driver in because if there's no drive, it'll ignore it. If
there's a drive
On 19/01/07, Tomoki Taniguchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought that the clicking would stop after PXE started but the
> clicking continues.
> I get a few "Buffer I/O error on drive hda, logicak block 0" with the
> number increasing.
Normally the LTSP client should not access local drive. Hav
I have a 2 year old laptop with a broken (click of death) HDD.
I figured, since LTSP doesn't use the local HDD, that this would make
the perfect LTSP Client.
I thought that the clicking would stop after PXE started but the
clicking continues.
I get a few "Buffer I/O error on drive hda, logicak blo