Mike Cloaked wrote:
In the past few days as some will know from a previous thread I had a total
failure of a machine that is now resolved after replacing the hard drive -
however one thing puzzles me - why would a computer with a failed SATA hard
drive be unable to boot from a liveDVD in the optical drive?
Maybe this is a suitable mystery to solve as we come to Halloween!
Depends on HOW the drive died. It may have died in a manner that hangs
the SATA controller and the bus as a consequence. That used to be a
problem with SCSI back in the "good ol' days" on occasion. Open
collector drivers and tristate buffers only work if everyone cooperates,
after all.
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