[COLUG] Boot problems

[Duane]

Mike Harrold wrote:
> On 6/20/08, Duane <duane at e164.org> wrote:
>> Mark Erbaugh wrote:
>>
>>  > I think I may have found (and corrected) the problem. I think it was my
>>  > IDE drive cable.  Someone mentioned that that caused a similar problem
>>  > and I had another cable so I tried it.  When I had the problem, it
>>  > usually showed up only on the first time I turned the computer on in the
>>  > morning.  I did a normal shutdown last night and this morning (with the
>>  > replacement cable), it came right up.
>>
>>
>> This used to happen to me occasionally with systems that had IDE hdd's
>>  in them. I don't know if it was some sort of corrosion or what, but
>>  after a year or a few years the hdd would look like it had failed.
> 
> Can you elaborate on "the hdd would look like it had failed" for me?
> I have had several drives over the years "fail" ... never occurred to me
> that the drive was fine and it was the cable that was bad (although in
> all instances a new drive "fixed" the problem").

All the usually IDE errors you normally see, I've seen disappear just by
re-seating the IDE cable.

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