weird change in system
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Wizzards; Apparently yesterday , well okay, last night ,a stray bit or martian dust or perhaps venutian dust? Or someone is sticking pins in my voodoo doll again ?! My ide cdrecorder was setup by the os (SUSE8.0) to be ide-scsi on installation of said OS ... however , this cd drive seems to have fallen off the face of the earth ! Why I do not know... it was working when I finished last night ,and today it's missing , as in lsmod doesn't even show anything remotely related to ide-scsi Or a cdrecorder . The information in control center hasn't changed .. it still shows the hardware attached.. I have a polywell amd xp proc, 1gig sdram and a yanaha lightspeed" cdrecorder ... my "reader" is a good old scsi toshiba all the programs seem to find that... but, of course no backup can happen ( to cd) w/o the cdrecorder ... any suggestions? I don't think anything haschanged anywhere... I don't seem to have any rootkits anywhere.. and nothing untoward seems to have happened ... Any ideas ? How do I get it back the old tried and true append ide-scsi to the bottom of lilo etc? ( I'll have to look it up as I've not done it in a while.. but that isn't so bad... I've also lost the cd-ioslave setup but that is trivial ( I think <G>) should I manage to get the cdrecorder back I should then be able to setup the ioslave toshiba again,no? Could the random disappearnce of drives be a failing power supply? Any Harware guru's willing to consult on this? TIA j afterthought MTBF expired.Insert wallet in drive A: and press <Enter>.
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On Thursday 11 July 2002 14:39, jfweber@eternal.net wrote:
Could the random disappearnce of drives be a failing power supply? Any Harware guru's willing to consult on this?
Could be. I have a drive dead after a random disappearnce. 2 dead Seagate E-IDE drive.... You could try fasting the power connector on the drive to make sure enough power. Or, change the power connector with some freely/unused power connector on your computer. Or take out several un-important PCI card and drive for a while to check if it's a power suply problem.
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