On 05/16/2010 06:23 PM, Bob Rea wrote:
after a while. What should I look for and where should I look? Top doesn't tell me anything that I can see.
In the olden days, I would tell you to check the cable to your floppy and to make sure the red stripe on the cable was going to pin #1 (closest to the power cable) In the current day of auto-everything, I don't know. I would go back through the jumper setting on the drive (if any) and your Master/Slave settings for 2 drives on one cable. I've never liked the "cable-select" jumper setting, so you might want to manually select Master/Slave jumper settings to match your setup. Check the BIOS settings. Also, if it is an ATA setup with two drives on one cable, some setups want the first drive at the end (say sda or hda) and the second drive on the mid-cable attach point (sdb, hdb, etc..). Also, the red-stripe applies to ATA drives as well, though I highly doubt you could do that to a hard drive and get any data at all out of it. Bottom line, I don't know. You are just going to have to dork with it. The best trouble-shooting would be to disconnect all drives except for your primary hard drive from the drive controllers and then start adding things back one-at-a-time until you figure out where the problem is. (don't do this if you have a RAID setup --- it's more involved) Good luck! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org