I have a desktop computer which frustrated me for years (literally, 4 years) because somehow the installation of any distros didn't work, it had a some "ata" error during the boot process after 30 or so seconds. I already understood that it must have been an issue with one of the SATA drives (it has 8 drives in it).
I was frustrated but never enough to really work on it since I have another desktop, another laptop, it was just a frustrating windows machine with network shares sitting in a corner.
Today I got some vacation, so I decided to "troubleshoot" it finally. I wanted to unplug each SATA drive one by one and try to boot on my USB key.
What do you know, I just unplug the old DVD drive, and it the key boots. Years of frustration, years of sheer laziness. One SATA cable.
So obviously that DVD drive was what caused the errors, but how can there be sector errors on a DVD drive ?
Just to satisfy my curiosity, would someone know what that problem was ?
PS: I don't even know if I should ask the question here since it's "fixed".