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Re: [PLUG] Foreboding behavior on IDE controller
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Call an exorcist? ;-)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 3:08 PM
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: [PLUG] Foreboding behavior on IDE controller
My motherboard support a bunch of SATA drives and one IDE controller. The
SATA slots are mostly full. I have an optical drive on the IDE controller.
From an prior system, I installed a Promise PCI/IDE card to support two IDE
hard drives on which I mostly keep music. At boot, the Promise card loads
its BIOS and detects the drives before grub loads, and after the POST.
I have an iPod Touch which I haven't been able to get to work with Linux, so I
popped a Mac Mini on top of the Linux box and mounted the aforementioned
drives as Samba shares. I mostly only use the Mac to manage the iTouch.
Last week while trying to load some music, I noticed that iTunes could not
find a lot of the files in its library. I looked at the share in Finder and
could only see Lost+Found and one directory. I switched to the Linux box,
and in Konqueror, I could only see the same.
The output of the ls command was strange. It found a lot more directories,
but before displaying them, it voiced a lot of complaints about stuff it
couldn't find. I never saw this before. Usually ls finds stuff or it
doesn't, but I have never seen it complain about stuff that should be there
that isn't.
I decided to unmount and remount it to see if that would bring things back.
It refused to remount.
When I tried to reboot, it stalled at the point where the Promise card is
scanning for drives. Repeatedly. I figured that was the problem. I decided
to pull the card and see if it would boot. Then, if it did, replace the card
and selectively detach the drives to see if the card or the drives were the
culprit.
When I pulled the card, it booted fine. The card was dusty, so I cleaned it,
and put it back. Tried it again and it booted fine without pulling any of
the drives. I have booted it several times since, and no problem.
Freak one time issue? Card going? Drive going? Guesses?
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