Thanks Jonathan, I should have mentioned that I was not using the internal RAID or software RAID. Just the one drive on the regular IDE channel. But I think I will can this board, even though it worked so well for me for so long. Chris Jonathan Kline said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I had similar problems with the KT7A, and I said screw it and went with > an Asus A7V. > > The Kt7A seems to be a fairly flaky board, at least from my experience > and I've seen a lot of mention of others having problems with the board, > specifically the IDE/Raid controllers. Plus if memory serves under Linux > at any rate the raid controller does everything in software anyways. I > would try using the non raid ide connectors and just do software raid, > and while you're at it flash the bios on the board to the latest maybe > they fixed some of the issues with software :-d > > ~J > > Chris Schumann wrote: > | Hello all, > | > | I've built a few machines in my time, and swapped oodles of hardware, > but | I think I've outdone myself this time. > | > | I had a machine (the Machine In Question) that was running as my > server | (Cyrus-IMAP, Sendmail, Apache, Gallery, Instiki) just fine... > until in | anticipation of getting a CPU upgrade, I tweaked some BIOS > timing | settings, and corrupted the hard disk. Badly. I loaded the > "Performace" | defaults back, but the damage to the disk was done. I > also cooked the new | CPU and destroyed the heat sink. I bought a new > heat sink and re-installed | the old CPU, and the temperature monitors > seemed very happy again. | > | Well last night I finally copied off the /etc directory, put it back > in | the MIQ and attempted to install FC4 cleanly (new partitions). It > all | seemed to go well until formatting, at which point it locked up > hard. | > | Since it's a Seagate drive, I tried to run Seagate's diagnostic > software, | and that locked up too. Perhaps of interest is that > Hitachi's Drive | Fitness Test quick and full tests passed AOK. > | > | I tried the install once again with the same result. Then I put in a | > Maxtor drive and got the SAME RESULT. Both drives appear to run fine in > an | external enclosure on another machine, but I have not done > extensive | tests. > | > | Now I'm beginning to think that the IDE controller, or maybe the > entire | motherboard is suspect, and that I shouldn't trust my incoming > e-mail to | such a flaky machine... so I should just replace the > motherboard. | > | If it matters, the motherboard is an ABIT KT7-RAID, the CPU is a > 900MHz | Athlon, it has 512MB PC133 RAM. The hard drives are Seagate and > Maxtor | 120GB ATA drives. The fan on the bridge chip failed about a > year ago, and | I recently replaced it. Since the motherboard has a RAID > controller on it, | I can disable the normal IDE controller, but that > might not be trustworthy | either. > | > | Your experienced opinions and guesses as to what's going on, and | > suggestions for next steps are welcome. And if you have a KT7 or KT7A > with | or without RAID you might sell, let me know. > | > | > | > | _______________________________________________ > | TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > | tclug-list at mn-linux.org > | http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > | > > - -- > Jonathan Kline <klinej at msoe.edu> > Milwaukee School of Engineering > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDsXEpQkF4UQaOvSoRAps9AJ974e41YHRXfr/YeykQTUOUPCIkQQCgzFaE > Fsy/Lgtyh85SAsz+sy9apy8= > =dNh1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----