[NTLUG:Discuss] Homemade machine locking up at swap

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Thanks for all who helped me. It turns out that it is NOT the drive. The 
drive worked fine on another system, and a good drive from another system 
did NOT work on the problem machine. Both were running in UDMA mode.

I swapped out the motherboard, and everything worked fine. But I also 
changed something else I that I thought might not have been a good idea: I 
had laid out the power cable to the motherboard under the drive. I was 
wondering if the power cable might have interfered with the IDE ribbon? I 
really don't know if the magnetic field from the power cable is significant 
enough to cause problems, but I decided to not take chances. I pulled it 
over to the other side of the chassis, well away from the drive and ribbon 
when I installed the new motherboard. So there were two variables I 
changed. I guess I will find out tomorrow which one it was (faulty 
motherboard or faulty builder) when I install the troublesome motherboard 
in another case.

Again, thank you all for your help!


>Sorry, but the size is almost useless in this problem.  The cylinder
>numbers are critical; without them we can't help you.
>
>As root, do:   /sbin/sfdisk -l /dev/hda
>look at the start & end columns.  Those should be the cylinder numbers.
>In fact, posting the entire output of sfdisk may help someone help you.
>Or at least allow us to help you eliminate various things as problems.
>:-)
>
>In cases like this, you need to reduce the machine to the absolute
>barest hardware needed to boot (remove all those extra cards if there
>are any), and get that working.  Then add the extra stuff back.  And if
>it breaks then, obviously one (or more) of those components are bad.
>
>Kevin
>
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