xmms fucked up my IDE?

monotux · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:12 am Post subject: xmms fucked up my IDE?

A few days ago, I had the worst moments of my life - I thought my harddrives were fucked up by xmms! :S

here's the tale:

I simply tried to push the 'add directory'-button - and the entire system got shrewed up. my mouse-pointer didn't move, the keyboard didn't response to anything either - I had to kill the computer, using (the dreaded) power-button.

when I tried to boot the computer, like 10 minutes later, my BIOS claimed that it couldn't find any hdds, at all - it didn't feel any cdroms either. I wanted to cry, but I managed to pull myself together and pulled my computer apart

after removing the harddrives from the IDE-cables, and letting them cool off, I assembled everything again, and tried to boot the computer - and booted windows, since xmms gave me shivers - and like 10 minutes later, I received a DBOD (dreaded blue-screen of death:)) - something about NTFS.sys was shrewed up.

at this point, I was ready to kill - although that wasn't necessary, since everything worked fine in linux

I forgott this entire accident, and for some reason, I started xmms (I use foobar2000 in win and quark in linux) to play a record - and my tale began anew.

and at that point, the tale reached it's peak - my internet stopped working.
it didn't work, at all, until this evening - I have cleaned my room for a week, since there havn't been anything else to do.

I suppose I should file a bug-report to the xmms-boys, but I'm faaaar to tired right now.
(and pissed off

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KePSuX · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:

BIOS didn't see IDE drives? You've got hardware problems hommie.

Kitohe · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 43 Location: New Jersey

Don't blame XMMS. You mentioned that Windows is complaining about NTFS.sys. Can I assume that your whole Windows partition is NTFS? Also were the mp3 located on the NTFS partition? I ask because reading hard drive data is the job of the kernel. Since Microsoft does not place nice with their software people have had to reverse engineer the NTFS file system so it can be read under Linux. If you check your kernel config there is a section about NTFS. Two of the options are Read Support (EXPERIEMENTAL) and Write Support(DANGEROUS). They are marked that way for a reason. If your NTFS partition is screwed up because of reads and writes generated by XMMS then don't blame the XMMS guys.

monotux · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:57 am Post subject:

my music is placed on a fat32-partition, since I need to access it from both win and gen - that's the really funny thing.

hardware problems? yeah right :-)

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KePSuX · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:59 pm Post subject:

Bouncelot · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 56

Yup. happened to me once. Started like that, then one day it wouldn't boot till moved one of my pci cards to a new slot.

then 3 weeks later it didn't matter what I moved where. MB's sometimes degrade, or just break, and it's usualy not worht the $60/hr to have someone look at it.

monotux · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:35 pm Post subject:

KepSux - you might have a point there :-)

this means, that I have to phone the dell-support, and ask for a new motherboard, and wait a few days, then dell will show up with someone who will install that new motherboard, and I don't have to pay anthing.
except that phone-call to dell :-)

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