[NTLUG:Discuss] now Ive done it...[the whole story]

[Steve Baker]

alh wrote:
> 
> MDK7.0-2
> 2.2.14
> Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard (ALi chipset)
> WinFats ATA66 pci(CMD648)
> 
> after messing about in the cmos to get my pci nic and my pci ata66 card to
> live together...not succeeding

<snip>

> I had to swap my drives' connections treating the addon as the onboard
> in order to get the kernel to boot because it kept  halting when it could
> not mount the partitions in fstab due to the fact that /dev/hda had become
> /dev/hde before I swapped the cables this worked fine for about...
  ^^^^^^^^
  HDE! That's a lot of drives.
  What are hdb, hdc and hdd?

> 4 hours till my satisfaction evaporated and trouble precipitated

I don't understand most of your symptoms - but if your setup runs for hours
and then crashes, I'd suspect a hardware issue.  Perhaps overheating, perhaps
some kind of overclocking problem?

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