diagnosing possible hardware problem

[Constantine Evans]

Felix Miata wrote:

> About 8 years. Didn't check any specific specs, but I know the 440BX chipset
> supports max UDMA33, which is what the HD is.

Then it should support dma...

> badblocks -p # -v -s:
> 10 passes on /boot (hda1)
> 40 more passes on /boot
> (1 cylinder vfat hda2 never mounted)
> 40 passes on vfat (hda3)
> 10 passes on swapper (hda5)
> 40 passes on / (hda6)
> 0 total bad blocks found on 140 passes

... and it isn't a bad block. Tod Merley may be right - it could be that 
this is a problem with something connected to the drive.

However, I also noticed that the folder you are getting the netboot 
files from is for nightly builds. Could it be that you just chose a bad 
day to download them?

Constantine