[clue-tech] Help with 2 hard drives on same IDE

[Angelo Bertolli]

Collins Richey wrote:

>I can't help much with the harddrive errors, but back to one of your
>original questions. I doubt that the problem has anything to do with
>having 2 drives on the same IDE interface. I've had that configuration
>(HDA-B as harddrives, HDC as CD-Writer on almost every system since I
>started with Linux, and I've yet to see a harddrive error.
>  
>
Yeah, I know that's what everyone is telling me, but gosh I just can't 
convince myself that this is a coincidence.  Western Digital is supposed 
to be a "good brand" but what are the chances that it would go out only 
after 1 or 2 years of usage right after I put in a second hard drive?  
Maybe it's not the drive itself, could it be the motherboard IDE, or 
possibly the software controller?

I don't know, but the drive seems to be getting worse.  I tried to 
mkfs.ext3 and it started having some serious problems creating inodes.
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