Just a quick followup - I'm guessing part of my problem is that the new drives are 3 Gbps and my mobo controller is only 1.5 Gbps - doesn't explain why I cannot connect the old 1.5 Gbps drive unless when I put the new ones on it hosed it? Josh On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:25:06 -0600 Josh Trutwin <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > A little off-topic, this is more a h/w issue. > > I have a desktop PC with an ABIT board - KW7 to be specific. I had a > Seagate ST380013AS (80GB) running on SATA fine for about 2 years > then it started going bad. I was running Winders so I did the old > check/repair disk, happened again so I figured I'd try Kubuntu since > I felt more comfortable troubleshooting hardware issues using > Linux. Problems later on - would only mount the / file system read > only. Ran tune2fs to continue on errors and e2fsck badblock checks - > found problems, still wouldn't boot out of read only. I bought two > Western Digital WD1600JS (160GB) drives hoping to setup a RAID, but > now I can't even get one of the drives recognized by the BIOS. In > addition now I can't plug in my failing drive and have it recognized > by the BIOS. > > I can't imagine that I somehow trashed all three drives with static, > I'm good about handling drives, done this many times. > > Nothing I can do anymore will get any one of the 3 SATA drives I > have recognized. I thought maybe I fudged a BIOS setting to I > cleared CMOS and started over, no luck. Is it possible the onboard > SATA controller is toast? Am I using this mobo at risk if so? I was > thinking of trying a PCI SATA controller. Unfortunately I don't > have another system with SATA to test... > > Any thoughts? > > On this same box I noticed a bad memory address using memtest86+ so > I pulled that stick. But that was before all these problems. If > memtest86 reports a single address failure is the stick pretty much > useless? Or can it be used (at risk)? > > Thanks, > > Josh > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >