Eeek - that does not sound good - does the drive work in windows or another os? If the drive is less than a year old I would take it back - you are going to have nothing but problems unless fsck or something like that can fix it. As Rinaldi mentioned check your cables - but I thing you have bad blocks by the sounds of it. see this for similar problems: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue76/tag/10.html Goodluck! =) DC On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:06, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > Donald G Wilson Jr wrote: > > > > System = > > Athlon XP 1800 > > Soltek Mainboard w/ via 333 chipset > > 120 GB WD Hdd Pri. > > No second ide dev. on pri. > > dvd and cdr on sec. ide > > > > on startup i get this error, though everything seems to run right. > > <prune> > > Make sure your ribbon cables are the correct type (40/80 pin as required) and > that they are secure. I would suspect it's only a matter of time before it > locks up. If in doubt replace the ide cables first. > > Rinaldi > -- > By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, > and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. --Socrates -- Dan Clowater clowater@cogeco.ca
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