Fried an Old HD
I searched through the storage today and took out an old machine. Attached an old 550 MHz Pentium III processor and an ancient 10 GB Hard Disk Drive. I have downloaded i386 iso images of Fedora Core 3. Spend some time burning them to CD. After an hour or so for download and burning time, I happily install Fedora Core 3 into the machine. Everything went smoothly that far. I am able to boot up, login and network is working great. Then, I rebooted the machine several times through ssh. On the third time, I heard a clicking sound and then pops, rushed to the machine, switch the power off, took out the cover and that familiar burning smell. Took out the HD and found the seagate chip fried… I do not know the cause of that. I guess it was due to a bad old HD. This is the first time that I have a fried HD. I hope it would not happen again. I am planning to reattach a new hard drive to that machine and see what happens next. 
Leave a Comment June 12, 2005