I'm having a great night!

[Marc]

I freaking love it when my HD fails!


[/heavy sarcasm]

The bitch of it all is I just bought a back up drive and got it in the mail literally 4 days ago, and hadn't had a chance to use it yet.

I'm posting this using Ubuntu Live from a CD. w00t.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I don't understand a word you just said??? What is Ubuntu..is that like Mozilla?? HD..Hard Drive...High Definition..

 

[Marc]

I don't understand a word you just said??? What is Ubuntu..is that like Mozilla?? HD..Hard Drive...High Definition..

HD = hard drive
Ubuntu = Linux distro

....

distro = distribution
Linux = an operating system written by Linus Torvalds based on the Unix operating system

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

HD = hard drive
Ubuntu = Linux distro

....

distro = distribution
Linux = an operating system written by Linus Torvalds based on the Unix operating system

I have a Compaq Presario laptop and I surf the net on it..it always works..and if it crashed I'd throw it in the dumpstar and buy another one..

 

[Beetlenut]

I freaking love it when my HD fails!


[/heavy sarcasm]

The bitch of it all is I just bought a back up drive and got it in the mail literally 4 days ago, and hadn't had a chance to use it yet.

I'm posting this using Ubuntu Live from a CD. w00t.

Downloadin too much Porn???

 

[Marc]

I have a Compaq Presario laptop and I surf the net on it..it always works..and if it crashed I'd throw it in the dumpstar and buy another one..

Thank you for that information. It was most helpful.

 

[severine]

Downloadin too much Porn???

More like too much sheep.

 

[Marc]

Downloadin too much Porn???

I wish. At least that'd be a good reason. This appears to be a fairly random, normal catastrophic failure. And apparently one of my spares is toast as well. Time to get number three and four out so I can reinstall. I don't think I can salvage anything. BIOS and Linux don't see the failed drive at all.

 

[RootDKJ]

That sucks, I hate being in computer hell. I always keep a Linux boot CD or flash drive around for just those purposes. What brand HD was it?

I do a daily backup to DLT tape at 4:30AM. It may be a really old school solution, but it always works.

 

[Marc]

Western Digital

 

[Beetlenut]

More like too much sheep.

Maybe the HD got fouled-up with extraneous wool residue!

 

[RootDKJ]

Last one I killed was a Maxtor. Last time I ever used them.

 

[Beetlenut]

I wish. At least that'd be a good reason. This appears to be a fairly random, normal catastrophic failure. And apparently one of my spares is toast as well. Time to get number three and four out so I can reinstall. I don't think I can salvage anything. BIOS and Linux don't see the failed drive at all.

Ouch. That's a lot of HD's to go through! Maybe you should check the voltage coming out of your PS cables. Your PS may be getting ready to go and is spiking?

 

[bigbog]

....

Not fun!...I've had a few WD's go south...any warranty?
Seems as though I've seen some mention of late of the WebWomen ON sheep..with all the arcade dazzle...gotta watch out for those...

 

[Marc]

Ouch. That's a lot of HD's to go through! Maybe you should check the voltage coming out of your PS cables. Your PS may be getting ready to go and is spiking?

That's not a bad idea, except, I'm a big believer in very high quality, oversized power supplies.


Update- so... ok, false alarm.

I realized after booting a few times from the Ubuntu CD that there was something strange going on. It did see my other drive (I just forgot what I labeled the partitions).

I also didn't notice in my bios setup, the bios wasn't recognizing any hard disk, sata or pata, that I plugged in.

Then randomly, I rebooted and both hard drives were visible again. Working off my normal install right now, and backing up EVERYTHING just in case, but it was either a mobo hiccup, or something is going wrong with the mobo ide.

Do mobo's with sata and pata control both with the same module? Anyone a hardware guy here?

 

[hardline]

HD = hard drive
Ubuntu = Linux distro

....

distro = distribution
Linux = an operating system written by Linus Torvalds based on the Unix operating system

that almost quote worthy

 

[Beetlenut]

That's not a bad idea, except, I'm a big believer in very high quality, oversized power supplies.


Update- so... ok, false alarm.

I realized after booting a few times from the Ubuntu CD that there was something strange going on. It did see my other drive (I just forgot what I labeled the partitions).

I also didn't notice in my bios setup, the bios wasn't recognizing any hard disk, sata or pata, that I plugged in.

Then randomly, I rebooted and both hard drives were visible again. Working off my normal install right now, and backing up EVERYTHING just in case, but it was either a mobo hiccup, or something is going wrong with the mobo ide.

Do mobo's with sata and pata control both with the same module? Anyone a hardware guy here?

Not sure about controlling both? Might also check your CMOS button battery. Glad to hear your back up.

 

[WJenness]

Do mobo's with sata and pata control both with the same module? Anyone a hardware guy here?

Depends on the board.

On some the SATA is part of the south bridge, on some it is a separate component as part of the PCI bus. I have a board on my desktop PC that has two SATA as part of the south bridge, and two as a separate device (RAID controller) on the PCI bus.

I've seen what you're seeing a couple times with my PC at home. The BIOS will occasionally for no reason go bonkers, and when I turn on the PC it won't boot and I get a message that says "Overclocking failed! Run Setup". My PC is not overclocked.

When that happens, the BIOS gets reset to default settings, I have to go in and re-enable the SATA controllers and reset the boot order.

Oh, and I did have my HDD in my laptop die a couple of weeks ago. I turned it on one Saturday morning to run a fencing tournament... no boot. No forewarning on this one either (no slowness, no HDD clicking, nothing). Luckily it was just a bad sector or two in the windows directory so I was able to get my data, but it pissed me off.

Computers suck.

-w

 

[Marc]

Depends on the board.

On some the SATA is part of the south bridge, on some it is a separate component as part of the PCI bus. I have a board on my desktop PC that has two SATA as part of the south bridge, and two as a separate device (RAID controller) on the PCI bus.

I've seen what you're seeing a couple times with my PC at home. The BIOS will occasionally for no reason go bonkers, and when I turn on the PC it won't boot and I get a message that says "Overclocking failed! Run Setup". My PC is not overclocked.

When that happens, the BIOS gets reset to default settings, I have to go in and re-enable the SATA controllers and reset the boot order.

Oh, and I did have my HDD in my laptop die a couple of weeks ago. I turned it on one Saturday morning to run a fencing tournament... no boot. No forewarning on this one either (no slowness, no HDD clicking, nothing). Luckily it was just a bad sector or two in the windows directory so I was able to get my data, but it pissed me off.

Computers suck.

-w

Checked out my mobo and the owner's manual. I believe all of them are part of the south bridge on this one. Wierd that the FDD and my two CD/DVD drives were read no problem, but no hard drive, pata or sata would work.

Of course, for some reason my Ubuntu CD has an error somewhere too, which only serves to muddy the trouble shooting. I hate when concurrent stuff like that happens.

 

[Beetlenut]

Depends on the board.

On some the SATA is part of the south bridge, on some it is a separate component as part of the PCI bus. I have a board on my desktop PC that has two SATA as part of the south bridge, and two as a separate device (RAID controller) on the PCI bus.

I've seen what you're seeing a couple times with my PC at home. The BIOS will occasionally for no reason go bonkers, and when I turn on the PC it won't boot and I get a message that says "Overclocking failed! Run Setup". My PC is not overclocked.

When that happens, the BIOS gets reset to default settings, I have to go in and re-enable the SATA controllers and reset the boot order.

Oh, and I did have my HDD in my laptop die a couple of weeks ago. I turned it on one Saturday morning to run a fencing tournament... no boot. No forewarning on this one either (no slowness, no HDD clicking, nothing). Luckily it was just a bad sector or two in the windows directory so I was able to get my data, but it pissed me off.

Computers suck.

-w

That sounds like a boot sector virus. My wife just mentioned to me last week about a new virus going around that destroys HD's by erasing or corrupting the first few boot sectors on HD's. Coincidence? Maybe.