>My roomate had a 40M IDE drive as wd0 (unsure of brand) and a 350M Maxtor
>drive as wd1.  Worked perfectly.

>He recently replaced the 40M with a 350M connor, and it now locks up durring
>fsck -p.

>However, if we boot single user and fsck (no -p) then ^D to multiuser, the
>machine runs forever, even while beating the crap out of the drives with
>all the programs we can find or write to abuse the machine.

>Any thoughts as to what this may be?

IDE is a very poorly designed/enforced "standard".  Many manufacturers
were making IDE drives already before it was really even decided what
the complete IDE standard was.  Consequently, not all IDE drives work
with exactly the same electrical characterstics.  This can make IDE
drives from different manufacturers behave poorly together, where they
work fine by themselves, for with other drives from the same
manufacturer.  I would guess this is your problem, although I could
just be blowing hot air.  Your mileage may vary...

				--Michael

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 Iowa State University of Science and Technology -- The way cool place to be!
   Project Vincent Systems Staff, Iowa State University Computation Center
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