Also: I didnt read every single reply to your email, but I didn't see anyone ask you yet. How may drives are in the machine (cdroms, p-ata, sata, everything) and how fast are they. Also what size of power supply do you have? I've seen strange issues with failing or strained power supplies as well. If you have a powerful processor and lots of drives, you could be experiencing these issues. You might want to try replacing the power supply with a spare one, and unplugging drives you aren't using to make sure it's not the power supply. -matt jim scott wrote: > I have a four month old SATA HD in my FC 4 system. A few days ago I > installed an IDE HD that a friend couldn't use any more. Since then, > my system has been very unstable. The system spontaneously reboots and > leaves me at a boot up screen with a message saying it can't find my > SATA drive. > > I changed the bay on my SATA drive during the install, so I checked > the power and SATA cables. Those both looked good, but I reseated them > both to be sure. Are there any system messages that I should look for? > Any other potential traps when adding an IDE HD to a system? Thanks > for any clues. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- <http://www.plaudit.com/> Matt Dittbenner *EMAIL* mbditt at plauditdesign.com <mailto:mbditt at plauditdesign.com> *WEB* www.plauditdesign.com <http://www.plaudit.com/> *PHONE* 651.646.0696 *ADDRESS* 2470 University Ave. St. Paul, MN 55114 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060421/bf6e536a/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 82 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060421/bf6e536a/attachment.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 49 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060421/bf6e536a/attachment-0001.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 84 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060421/bf6e536a/attachment-0002.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 1839 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060421/bf6e536a/attachment-0003.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 68 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060421/bf6e536a/attachment-0004.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 109 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060421/bf6e536a/attachment-0005.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 109 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060421/bf6e536a/attachment-0006.gif