On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:27 -0300, Mariano López Reta wrote: > Hmmmm, interesting. Then, I would say that the problem concentrates on > the controller or the drives, since you have other disks (I'm assuming > same make/model here), that has not failed. Do you have other machine > were you can check if the drive respond or if it went bad definitely? If > it is physically damaged, then I would say that the problem is almost > surely on the drive itself. If some (or most or all) of the errors can > be corrected using other controller/motherboard, then the fault is on > the electronics. One more thing I forgot: The power supply theory is very plausible, also. To check if it's OK, you measure all four cables on any peripheral connector, to check for +5, -5, and +12. Of course you'll not remain looking at your voltmeter for a week, so if they measure OK when you check, and the failure is random, you'll have to try to change the (complete) power supply. They are a cheap part (around 50 bucks for a nice quality one). So try that and if the problem does not go away, then there's nothing else to put suspicions on. Just blame the drives. Hope this helps, -- Mariano López Reta <mlreta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tortuguitas, Buenos Aires, Argentina Registered Linux user #412032 Count yourself at http://counter.li.org
