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New Oh lord how I love Knoppix and hot-plug SATA drives
Lost a couple of critical files.
Have about a dozen SATA disks here, with LOTS of partitions.
Hot plug them into a knoppix box, a few find commands, and, WALLAH!
Found files.
New BTW, discovered some interesting things...
How old are the Dell's you had issues with and what "chipset" are they.

A whole slew of things has recently come up having to do with "apparent" corruption of SATA and certain PATA drives.

LKML has been really hot and heavy about getting the hard folks happily kept while they find and fix these hard to find but readily found in the wild problems.

All versions of nForce with kernels 2.6.11 or 12 through 2.6.20.
Some versions Intel Pro/Centrino/i8** chipsets 2.6.12 through 2.6.20
Some VIA chipsets mainly the Newer ones for P4 and KT880 or more recent
some SiS chipsets, since about 4 years ago... unsure of processors supported.

Its a chase, that is supposed to be fixed by 2.6.20.5, 2.6.20.6 or even 2.6.21. Exactly when things are fixed, I dunno. Many of the problems are off-by-one issues, due to some refactoring of and improvements made to core code ~ 2.6.[11|12]. Much of the problematic code is stuff written under NDA'd documents from said manufacturers, and not the new model for "drivers by kernel maintainers" stuff recently.

There is significant motivation to fix these things. Etch has only one of the latent bugs with nForce which can be worked around during the install and will be remembered on kernel install. It will be fixed upon the next either security or "globally" affecting bug in the kernel for Etch update. Or when Etch-r1 is released, which ever is first.

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[link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg],
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey
Freedom is not FREE.
Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars?
SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;

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New Doesn't matter
I hope.

I'll be picking this up this afternoon to replace it.

[link|http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2533698&Sku=I69-2132%20A|http://www.tigerdire...&Sku=I69-2132%20A]
New thats an i965 chipset which is...
on the affected list.

But it doesn't ALWAYS show up. It is one of the reasons its been so long to find.

Good luck, let us know.
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[link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg],
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey
Freedom is not FREE.
Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars?
SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;

0 rows returned.
New Not quite finished
I put it together (never did it before, was interesting), but I probably screwed up the HD connection, not even seen in the BIOS.

Ran out of time, had to get some work done, and am too tired now.

I'll probably finish it tomorrow night and let you know.
     Oh lord how I love Knoppix and hot-plug SATA drives - (crazy) - (4)
         BTW, discovered some interesting things... - (folkert) - (3)
             Doesn't matter - (crazy) - (2)
                 thats an i965 chipset which is... - (folkert) - (1)
                     Not quite finished - (crazy)

Wait 'til you sneeze, next.
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