Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 17:17:29 -0500 From: "Brian Sletten" <bsletten@jester.autometric.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: X and my hard drive Message-ID: <9503051717.ZM15572@jester.autometric.com>
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Well, I fixed my mouse problem of yesterday (Sorry, it was a silly question!), and got X up and running... kind of. It'll come up, I'll see the famous background and X pointer but then my hard drive will make a dramatic shutting down noise and will stop. It'll try to start up again in a few moments and then immediately make this shutting down noise again. This keeps on happening until I eventually have to reboot. This happens every time I run X! Now, this type of behavior occurred the other day shortly after I got FreeBSD installed and was trying to recompile the kernel... Has anyone seen something like this?!?! I have a Gateway 2000 386, 12MB of RAM, a WD controller for the floppy and hard drive (where I have my boot partition, root, and swap), and an Adaptec 1542CF driving a Toshiba 3401B and Fujitsu 2694 hard drive. It could just be that my hard drive is flaky (it has seen a lot of use and abuse in the last four years) but it seems odd that every time I ran X this would happen (unless it is just the intensive nature of X that kills it...) Any suggestions, tips, advice would be greatly appreciated. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Brian J. Sletten bsletten@autometric.com Ph. (703) 658-4178 (O) 2905 Wickersham Way, #202 (703) 207-9377 (H) Falls Church, VA 22042 Higdon's Law: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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