On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:04:40 +0100, "Tim Green" timothy.j.green@gmail.com said:
If you are unlucky, the drive went bad when you powered the computer down and back up again. Do you have any drive testing software not on that drive?
Well, fortunately all my applications are installed in /usr (on /dev/hda1) in the normal manner. I was able to do a manual install of hdparm which reported that /deb/hdb is using UDMA5 mode (whatever that means?!).
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:09:20 +0100, "Mark Rogers" mark@quarella.co.uk said:
Richard Lewis typed:
Yes, you're all right of course. I'll do it now.... (its just that the problem is with one partition of a drive, it seems completely unrelated, but logic will out I suppose.... ;-)
It's entirely possible that the memory is a red herring. Maybe the IDE cable got dislodged when you were inserting the memory module, for example. Ruling that out is a useful diagnostic step.
Yes, I've removed the new RAM now (and I gave all the cables a good shove while I was in there).
I get exactly the same problem. I didn't think it was likely to be the cables because its only hdb2 which is affected (hdb1 is my /home mount point and thats working fine).
Another thought: Swap size is usually related to physical memory size.
Good thought, but my swap partition is on hda which (like hdb1) is completely unaffected.
I'll keep fiddling...
Cheers, Richard