At this point, I'm pretty sure it was just a loose connector. I took everything apart and put it back together. Since then, I haven't had any problems with the drive. Total drives on the machine: 3. One DVD-RW, one SATA, and the new IDE drive. I've got a 450W power supply -- I figured that would be enough? On 4/21/06, Matt Dittbenner <mbditt at plauditdesign.com> wrote: > > 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, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.orghttp://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- > > <http://www.plaudit.com/> Matt Dittbenner *EMAIL* mbditt at plauditdesign.com > *WEB* www.plauditdesign.com <http://www.plaudit.com/> *PHONE* > 651.646.0696 *ADDRESS* 2470 University Ave. > St. Paul, MN 55114 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- http://ThreeWayNews.blogspot.com Your source. For everything. Really. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060423/8e5d765c/attachment.htm -------------- 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/20060423/8e5d765c/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/20060423/8e5d765c/attachment-0001.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/20060423/8e5d765c/attachment-0002.gif -------------- 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/20060423/8e5d765c/attachment-0003.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/20060423/8e5d765c/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/20060423/8e5d765c/attachment-0005.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/20060423/8e5d765c/attachment-0006.gif
