Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:23:08 -0500 From: John <papalia@udel.edu> To: Mark Hendriks <markh@lon.imag.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crippled Hard Drive Message-ID: <4.1.20000103122043.00940d50@mail.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <200001031659.IAA28456@superman.imag.net>
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<snip> >I tried booting into DOS. DOS booted, but very slowly. Win3.1 failed, >reporting "general failure" on C:. From DOS, I could access the hard disk, >but very slowly. > >I have determined that the floppy & CD are working okay, it's just the hard >drive. > >Has anyone seen this type of thing before, where a hard drive becomes >crippled, rather than failing? Not saying its the end all and be all, but I did have a similar problem twice before (not in FreeBSD though). The problem ended up being a IDE Controller that decided to spontaneously flake out. Unfortunately the first time the Controller was integrated into the HD, so the HD had to be replaced. The second time a simple install of a "borrowed" PCI plug in controller confirmed the problem. Not sure if this helps much, but the problem your describing is somewhat exactly (is that an oxymoron?) like the problems I experienced. Good luck, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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