[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure

[Eric Smith]

On 7/23/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> My guess would be that when you recently  were working on the machine
> one of the IDE cables loosened up at a connector (the ribbon cable to
> the connector, not the connector pair itself). This can happen easily,
> especially with not-top-of-the-line cables.
>
> Even with a bad HDD you should have been able to boot the Live CD,
> unless the drive failure actually dragged one or more lines down, or
> even possibly dragging the 12 or 5 volt PS down. But the drive couldn't
> have been too badly off electronically, if the BIOS could recognize it,
> leaving mechanical problems of course.
>
> In any case, I'll bet you have a bad cable (or connector), possibly a
> bad drive, and just possibly both.
>
> BEWW



Thanks Brian.  Is it really possible that the ribbon/connector/ide bus has
some issue which is allowing the one hard drive to boot, but none of the
others I've tried.  In all of my test cases i was using the same ribbon and
the same connector.  I can swap out the ribbon and see if that makes a
difference... but is there anything else I can actually do to test this
theory?

I've been thinking about starting to play with setting up a diskless FE...
maybe now is the time :).
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