Well, night before last I was copying disks like a madman and everything was going fine...yesterday evening, I go to power up and as it runs through the BIOS screen, everything is fine with the SATA striped RAID, but when it's supposed to go to the next screen "select operating system" (dual-boot machine) it hangs for a few seconds then compes up with
<disk read failure
press control-alt-delete to restart>
Now I have Win XP on each of 2 ide drives on channel one, two dvd-rs on channel 2...connected to the router/cable modem by rj45 cable, but not much web activity on this machine. Laptop was logged into Azureus for torrent downloads.. all day/night and is still running fine.
Could it be as simple as a loose cable? ANy suggestions before I tear into it this afternoon? My first thought is to take each drive and put it in a usb2 enclosure to see if it's a physical problem....but BOTH drives at once??