Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3 Disk Failure

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JL> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:28:24 -0700
JL> From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


JL> How about a memory failure, Eddy?  Possible that bad memory
JL> could cause drive to look bad?

Yes, it's possible... along with m/b, CPU, overheating... but
I'd expect more problems than just a drive appearing bad.  RAM
failures tend to be much more spectacular, at least in my
experience.

IIRC, the drive failure detection is based on codes returned by
the IDE controller.  I'd need to do some digging... are those
stored in RAM via DMA, or transmitted via I/O ports?  (I _think_
that it's the latter, but definitely won't swear to it.)

Possible, but my instinct is that it wouldn't be RAM.  Not that
my instinct is always right, but I'd expect additional symptoms
if RAM/motherboard/CPU/overheating.


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Eddy

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