But I have done some discoveries this evening.
#1. Since booting Linux from the installation CD connected as a IDE unit takes a long time I thought it also was affected by the same problem. But now after giving it the time it needed it turns out that the reason it was taking time was that it could not mount the HD. In other words accesing the IDE CD player works but not the IDE HD so this could be that it's not broken hardware :-)
I had abandoned booting connecting it as an IDE unit and running it as a USB unit before I retried it.
#2. After booting up on the Ubuntu live CD I downloaded Seagates SMART checkup tool for linux and ran it on the machine against the HD and received the following error "VERIFY failed on block 127 Sense data = 14/00/00". Not sure but I think the 0x14 code is broken cable. Strange...
Last edited by johan.eke : 18-07-08 at 11:09 PM.
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