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

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 23 September 2005 12:31 am, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> 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.

If it's getting worse,  try running the diagnostic again.  But the first thing 
I'd try is a different cable,  they get flaky,  and the trouble showing up 
right after you were in there messing with the hardware sure seems to point 
to that as a possibility...

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