On 11/11/09 23:03, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/11/11 22:41 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
oS installed on an (ancient) Quantum Fireball with same cabling setup works perfectly on my wife's computer. Go figure.
The original Fireballs predated the ATA specs which dictated use of 80 wire PATA cables for proper operation and so are less likely to suffer from cabling that would be substandard for a considerably newer HD.
Understand. My wife is now using my "backup" computer on which I ran various versions of oS, including 11.0, using Seagates and Maxtors of various sizes and of various vintages (including a *300MB* one which I bought back in ~1987 and which cost me an arm and a leg at the time. Still have it; still works AFAIK) :-) . Never a hiccup. (I installed oS 11.1 on her computer using the Fireball as an interim measure 'cause I had plans for the other HDs I have and also knew that I was going to get more HDs (as it turned to be...) the Seagate 160GBs - the second one of which is now suss. Why use something 'serious' when she's only "the wife" [joke, Joyce, it's only a joke!] :-D ) I took the problematic Seagate I mention across to my computer last night and installed 11.2 on it. Installs OK, but at the first boot the error message comes up that grub could not find an operating system! :-( . It boots OK on my old 'backup' computer now used by my wife - but it does a long time to boot there, and then the HD light stays on (which I described in an earlier post). But grub can't even find a Linux partition on the Seagate installed on my computer -- go figure. The bottom line then is becoming clear: that I bought a couple of Seagates from a batch of faulty Seagates - in much the same way that Western Digital a few years ago produced a batch of HDs which were manufactured...well....'not quite up to standards'. *Nevertheless*, as Patrick would state, as he did to someone else only early today, I belong to that group of masochists who keeps persevering, and I will be bringing across another computer, from another room, on which I will use this suss Seagate to install 11.2. It's not really that I am being masochistic, it's just that I always like to check out all the options before concluding that the situation is not resolvable. BC -- I work to live not live to work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org