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Simon Avery wrote: >>> Turns out, when building the machine, I'd re-used the ide cable that was >>> in the case. It wasn't ATA/100 and the data was being corrupted as it >>> was written. The install software was hiding, or not reporting, the >>> errors so all appeared well. No write error occured during the install >>> that was shown to me. >>> >> Thats interesting. Didn't it give you a warning message on the BIOS >> saying that it was using a 40 conductor IDE cable rather than an 80 >> conductor cable? > > Nope, or I'd probably have noticed it earlier. Luckily, by googling the > exact error message took me to a site that said something like "If > you're seeing this, chances are your ide cable is pants". It were right! > >> they're now getting within reach of the masses. I think my next upgrade >> will be an X2 although I doubt it'll be a 4800+ (unless that is I win >> the lottery or get a pay rise ;-) > > The most I've spent on a processor since a splurdged on a dx4-100, but > this is for a cctv monitoring box that really takes a hammering on the > cpu. (It'll be replacing a quad xeon 500 and a athlon 64/3000 hopefully > - the bogomips for both machines work out about the same and I know the > software works well with multi processors) > > Speaking of which, there might be a compaq 5500 quad xeon coming up very > cheaply in the s devon area shortly if anyone's interested. Would suit > deaf computer lover - it's a bit loud. > I'll have it if it doesn't mind getting wet (the garage leaks). Oh- and I'd need to persuade my Dad as well (actually that might be somewhat difficult). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html