Hello everyone. I’m asking your help in an issue that is bothering me since i’ve installed a second hard drive in my system. Out of nowhere one of them shuts down (don’t know which one, because its hard to tell), and the entire system freezes. Often happens during cd burning processes, or even in idle. After about a minute it recovers. I have OpenSUSE 11.0, and two 40 GB identical Western Digital hard drives. I dual boot the system with WinXP, and partitions are as follows:
sda1 as root, sda2 as home, sda3 as windows xp C: partition, sda4 as swap, sdb1 as windows xp D: partition, sdb2 another swap partition, sdb3 as local1 and sdb4 as local2. If I use fdisk at sdb, sdb1 is marked as bootable, and it warns me that “Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.” and “Partition table entries are not in disk order”. Is it normal? Could the twisted partition layout be the reason? Thank you all in advance,
Johnny.
On 01/18/2010 09:36 AM, johnn2400 wrote:
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> Hello everyone. I’m asking your help in an issue that is bothering me
> since i’ve installed a second hard drive in my system. Out of nowhere
> one of them shuts down (don’t know which one, because its hard to tell),
> and the entire system freezes. Often happens during cd burning
> processes, or even in idle. After about a minute it recovers. I have
> OpenSUSE 11.0, and two 40 GB identical Western Digital hard drives. I
> dual boot the system with WinXP, and partitions are as follows:
> sda1 as root, sda2 as home, sda3 as windows xp C: partition, sda4 as
> swap, sdb1 as windows xp D: partition, sdb2 another swap partition, sdb3
> as local1 and sdb4 as local2. If I use fdisk at sdb, sdb1 is marked as
> bootable, and it warns me that “Partition 1 does not end on cylinder
> boundary.” and “Partition table entries are not in disk order”. Is it
> normal? Could the twisted partition layout be the reason? Thank you all
The partition layout is not the reason. You either are having a disk error, or
your disk system is losing a command. Check /var/log/messages to see what is
being logged. My current hard drive has a bad sector that is not being relocated
for some reason. When it get accessed, my system hangs the same way.