That's fine. But tell me why letting the machine reaching working temperature establishes a stable system and the difference between Heaven and Hell. If it applies to Quantum hard disks only, I'll certainly consider other options next time I'm going to buy hardware. FYI, I use 8.4 GB and 13.6 GB Quantums, both supporting UDM66. It doesn't make any difference if they are connected through a Promise Ultra66 card or directly to the motherboard. Anyway, the end justfies the means ... Lars Knudsen wrote:
Niels Stenhøj wrote:
IMHO this is not a specific SuSE problem. This can happen to W95, W98 and 2000 as well. I've found that it's a hardware problem.
Working temperature. -------------------
Your machine must reach working temperature before booting, installing, partitioning, formatting etc. What we are talking about is the fact that the coefficient of expansion is not the same for the phycical disks as for the arms carrying the RW heads of your harddisk. Any misalignment of the
This is precisely the reason why hard disks do temperature recalibration. Hard disks have done this for at least 15 years but this might still be a concern if you are trying to install SuSE 7.0 on a 80kg 12inch 5MB hard disk from around 1980... ;-)
Best regards,
Lars Knudsen
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