That drive was just replaced in January. I had a problem where my old drive got noisy, so Maxtor replaced it for me. Hard drive quality sucks nowadays. Must be why some manufacturers are cutting back to 1 year warranties on drives. Hompage www.public.asu.edu/~swiebel/index.html >From: Michael Havens >Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:29:01 -0700 > >So then, there is a way to look at the drive? Ohhhhh. I know: >boot with a livecd and then copy the data. Ewwwwe, if he has a lot of data >he >could install the new drive, install Linux, and then run midnite commander >to >copy everything with the attributes even. >:)~mike~(: >On Sunday 11 April 2004 12:05, technomage wrote: > > I've seen that on drives that are starting to go bad. windows won't >catch > > until BSOD (by then, its waaaaaaay too late). better to backup what data > > you can, and then get a new drive. that one is going to get >progressively > > more unreliable with time. > > > > Technomage Hawke > > > > On Sunday 11 April 2004 11:00 am, steve wiebelhaus wrote: > > > My system won't boot Linux any more. During boot, it works up to where >it > > > starts giving the error message "hdb: lost interrupt" just after rw > > > mounting the partitions. It just keeps repeating that over and over, > > > won't do anything else. When I googled, some sites said that this >problem > > > had to do with dma, and that turning dma off would fix. I tried that, > > > along with some other kernel parameters "ide=nodma, noapic, noacpi, > > > noapm, nodma" None helped. I can still boot into WindowsXP, which is >on > > > the next partition on the same hard drive. I can also boot with the >Suse > > > LiveCD. Using the LiveCD, I can access both hard drives, both use the >dma > > > option. > > > Any ideas of what could be causing the lost interrupt, or how to fix >it? > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! > > > http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > >This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet >Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam >or viruses. >Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam >blocked from your >E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE >with every account. > > >http://www.vei.net/ >mailtospamtrap@vei.net >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss