diagnosing possible hardware problem

Constantine Evans constantine at evanslabs.org
Sat Oct 14 17:33:18 UTC 2006




Felix Miata wrote:
> On 06/10/13 23:48 (GMT-0700) Constantine Evans apparently typed:
> 
>> Tod Merley may be right - it could be that 
>> this is a problem with something connected to the drive.
> 
> What do you mean by "something"? All there is is 4 screws, a power cable,
> and one of the 3 ribbon cables I used, connected only to the device and the
> motherboard.
>

Either the controller on the motherboard, or some sort of IDE problem. 
But I'm really not sure.

>> 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?
> 
> IIRC, in the at least 5 times I did it over more than a week's time the
> timestamps and byte counts never changed. At least once I got them from the
> loop mounted edgy beta DVD.

Oh. I must have looked on the wrong day then.





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