[geeks] IDE drive problem on U5

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:44:55AM -0500, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> Thanks for the thoughts folks. The system was from another Rescue
> member who needed to clear space and had been running semi-recently.
> The ide bus appears to function correctly as the CDROM does boot &
> probe-ide at the ok prompt does show the drives. Format will load &
> claim to write a label but it doesn't change the barf mode when the
> installer hits newfs. I think that, unfortunately, there is something
> wrong with the drives & I'll mark them as doorstop material. Maybe one
> of them to open up so my 8 year old can see what they look like on the
> inside?
> 
> In the meantime, I've done some digging in a bunch of odds & ends and
> found an old Hitachi Deskstar 80gb drive & and even older Seagate
> Barracuda 15 gb that are, IIRC, working pulls from my last Windows PC
> (Win2k - I only do Windows in VMware Fusion on my MacBook Core 2 Duo
> anymore).

I'd make sure the "new" drives work before trashing the old ones.