partitions

[JB]

My Western Digital HD came with a floppy disk that has
diagnostics on it. You can also download from the WD
website if this helps.
http://support.wdc.com/download/

> Well, got  fdisk -l dev/hda to report that in fact I
> have hda1 and hda5 patitions,  no hda2 to mount.  
> 
> Now, when I have both FAT partitions mounted, system
> locks up catastrophically.  No mouse, kbd, nothing. 
> Only responds to hard reset.  Doesn't happen with
> just
> one or the other singly, only when I mount both. 
> Well, it did that twice, but now I've got both
> mounted, and it isn't locking up yet.  Makes me
> wonder
> if the drive itself is failing, thus the corrupted
> drivers?  Is there a way to tell if this is so short
> of waiting for it to die?  Less than 1yr old WD
> 80gb,
> should be under warranty yet.  
>