hda II

Well, I don't know what happened but the 60 GB hard drive that died on me is working ok. I tried to reinstall Arch on it but, for some reason, once I had the base install finished, I got the same errors. So, as a test, I installed Fedora Core 2 on the drive and, so far, so good. I wonder if the partitioning tool with Arch did something to the drive. I think I'll stick with FC2 for a week or two. It's not as bad as I thought. Getting the Java and Mplayer plug-ins to work in Firefox under Fedora is a little work but I did it. I certainly like Arch's package manager more than Fedora's though. Next up: switching my laptop to Fedora (FC4?) and then getting back to Arch on my desktop.

I did install FC2 on the two small drives (8.4 and 1.6) and after a day a heard some loud clicking and got an error referring to hdb which was the 8.4 GB drive. So, it looks like that one is done.