Mike Cloaked wrote:
In the past few days as some will know from a previous thread I had a total failure of a machine that is now resolved after replacing the hard drive - however one thing puzzles me - why would a computer with a failed SATA hard drive be unable to boot from a liveDVD in the optical drive?
Maybe this is a suitable mystery to solve as we come to Halloween!
Depends on HOW the drive died. It may have died in a manner that hangs the SATA controller and the bus as a consequence. That used to be a problem with SCSI back in the "good ol' days" on occasion. Open collector drivers and tristate buffers only work if everyone cooperates, after all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------