Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:29:22 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] how to isolate hardware failure with ATA Message-ID: <3DA84DE2.9000104@potentialtech.com>
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I think the computer that I'm currently working on has hardware that is about to fail. But I'm not sure if it's the mobo or the HDD. In the past week, this scenerio has happened twice. The system just freezes. Not completely, mind you, but anything that needs to use the HDD doesn't work. (it's weird, you can still type in an Xterm, but it can't execute the commands because it can't get the binaries off the HDD) One time that it did this, I hard booted and and the BOIS claimed that there was no HDD, so I poped the cover to check for loose cables, found none, and (figuring I was hosed with a bad HDD) it booted up OK this time. The other time, the hard boot resulted in a successful reboot. Prior to this week, this computer has been 100% reliable for about 2 years now. So, I'm assuming the problem is one of two things: HDD or ATA controller on the mobo. Does anyone have any advice on how to isolate the cause of the problem? I'm on a budget and I'd really like to replace _only_ the part that's failing, but I'm not sure how to isolate the problem, and I don't have any spare hardware to swap out. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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