IC11: dying hard drive

GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
edited December 2007 in Folding@Home
The hard drive on IC11 is flaking out again. It's actually done this before, but the problem went away a few months ago, and just resurfaced.

Usually, it will boot just fine, but it looks as if at some point hours later the hard drive quits responding. Strangely, the computer reboots (I would have expected it to just lock up and sit there). But, since the hard drive isn't responding at the time, it just sits there at the BIOS trying to identify the IDE drives. If I power cycle it manually, it starts up again, but it's a matter of time before it does it all over again.

I think I have one more spare HD - I'll get it installed this week when I can find it. I think this makes the fourth hard drive that's died in the "Icrontic_11 home for old hard drives." :D

Comments

  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    I'm drunk.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2007
    Keebler wrote:
    I'm drunk.

    ROFL!
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    We appreciate your dedication, Garg!
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    I appreciate Keebs'!
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    He was drunk.. :wtf:
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    If you need a Hard drive Garg, let me know...I think I have an IDE or two laying around here :)
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    primesuspect wrote:
    He was drunk.. :wtf:

    Oh I believe it. You guys have enough beer left to have Novemberfests every weekend this month :D

    Unfortunately, Keebs doesn't have to be sober for his sentry gun to eviscerate me.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Fixt!

    I'm posting this from IC11, which is now up and running with the hard drive I got from DogDragon during the LAN. I've always liked that IC11 has parts from so many different IC members.

    And, it's running Ubuntu 7.10! This is only my second experiment with Linux, so I'm pretty stoked about it. The wireless card wasn't working with the Live CD, so I spent over an hour researching ndis and drivers while Ubuntu was installing. Then it turns out the wireless worked just fine with a fresh install of the real deal :D
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Awesome!
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    IC11 - Fueled by Win & Pabst
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    AWESOME WORK GARG!!! This is one ROCKIN Host!!! IC11 is SOOO lucky!!!


    Oh Garg, did Sledge hook you up with more memory?
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    QCH2002 wrote:
    AWESOME WORK GARG!!! This is one ROCKIN Host!!! IC11 is SOOO lucky!!!

    Thanks :D
    QCH2002 wrote:
    Oh Garg, did Sledge hook you up with more memory?

    Haven't heard back from him. I'm just wanting to try running IC11 on big WUs to see if it can bring in any more points.
  • the_technocratthe_technocrat IC-MotY1 Indy Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    GJ! What type of mem do you need?
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    the_technocrat wrote:
    GJ! What type of mem do you need?

    Thanks TT! Just some DDR400. It's got one stick of 256mb right now.
  • Your-Amish-DaddyYour-Amish-Daddy The heart of Texas
    edited December 2007
    I can hook you up with eight sticks of PC2100 128mb right now, if I can find all of them
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Your Amish Daddy wrote:
    I can hook you up with eight sticks of PC2100 128mb right now, if I can find all of them

    Thanks for the offer, but it's running at 170mhz FSB right now (and I'm thinking of bumping it up), so pc2100 probably wouldn't be up to the task. Otherwise I totally wouldn't object to filling the other two slots on the board :thumbsup:
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    I'll poke Sledge AGAIN.
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