OK, if it is too quiet

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Monday 26 March 2007 01:10:08 pm James Sissel wrote:
> Why would a new 300G hard drive format and run Windows 2000 fine, load
> and run Trustix Linux 2.2 and 3.0.5 fine, load CentOS 4.4 and Ubuntu
> 6.06 TLS fine but when it comes time to boot them give a "Buffer I/O
> error on device hda, logical sector 0" and then fail to recognize any of
> the partitions?

Game over, dude.  On-board controller probably failed.  Should at lest be 
under warranty.

(Of course, you could try just wiggling the wires...)