weird disk related panic

[Gergo Szakal]

On 18 Apr 2007 23:51:11 GMT
"James Frazer" <jfrazer at ieee.org> wrote:

> Well, I lost the crash dump somehow.  But the fact that upon reboot it
> complained about having no hard drive certainly further suggests a
> hardware problem.
> 

Although this is a laptop, I experienced such issues on desktop machines when there was low voltage due to broken 230V circuit in the building, and the hard drives turned off and tried to come back up, of course no OS tolerates this. Can't you hear strange noises (clicks) before the panics?

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Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars at gmail.com>
University Of Szeged, HU
Faculty Of General Medicine

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