I think that's what's happening. They're on different channels, and I tried a few mixtures of jumper settings, but no luck.
I'm keen to give the PCI controller a try, but I'll have to get my hands on one. Maybe now is the time to go for RAID with 2 hard drives. Only problem is a lack of funds. This drive is only a few months old! Should be under warranty at least. In the mean time, anybody know of good/reasonably affordable data recovery services in the area, that might have a better go at it? I'd have to weigh cost against data, but there are some photos of my 7 month old son that hadn't made it to a backup yet that I wouldn't mind getting back. I see Intrex advertises that they do some data recovery. Any idea how good an option they would be? Any location a better choice? I guess this has become OT, but it did kind of start off as a Knoppix question. Apologies to those who mind. -- Owen On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 20:36 -0400, Jason Tower wrote: > a hosed hdd can interfere with other ide devices, i've seen this kind of > behavior before. make sure they're not on the same channel, and be sure > to try different jumper settings. if that fails try using a pci ide > controller for the hdd. if that doesn't work you're probably sol. > > jason > > Owen Berry wrote: > > This morning my wife's computer crashed, the hard drive started making > > clicking noises, and, when rebooted would get past the BIOS startup and > > then stop with a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner of the > > screen. The only good sign is that the BIOS detects the hard drive. > > > > Seems pretty bad. My first thought was to try to recover whatever > > possible using Knoppix. Tried booting off the CD, but all I got was the > > flashing cursor. Went into the BIOS and double checked that the CD drive > > came before the hard drive in terms of startup devices - it was. To be > > sure, I changed all 3 options to be the CD drive. Still the same result. > > > > I tried unplugging the hard drive and then booting off Knoppix, and > > everything worked fine. Any ideas what I could be missing here? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- Owen > > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
