Toshiba Satellite P100-MA1

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:54:49PM -0500, Ian Petersen wrote:
> That's encouraging--I assumed it was a hardware issue because it does
> other weird things, like randomly panicking on boot because it can't
> find the hard disk (don't remember the exact wording--I just reboot
> when it happens), or randomly appearing to power on but not getting to
> a POST never mind booting (the LEDs turn on, but the screen stays
> black and there's no apparent hard drive activity).  I paid for Dell's
> idiot insurance, so I should probably talk to tech support, but my
> list of things to do is long and the machine usually works, even if it
> takes a couple of boots.

That does sound like a hardware problem. :)

> I'm a bit of a Gentoo fanboy (*boo hiss*).  Here's the output of uname -a:
> 
> Linux samwise 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 30 12:12:23 EST
> 2006 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux

OK, so 2.6.18 is looking like most SATA issues are fixed.

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