Ok, I've run out of places to look. I'm getting occasional "hda:timeout" messages and my system is locking up with a disk error after anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days. When it locks up, I can still change virtual consoles, but I can't run anything and ctrl-alt-del doesn't work. Since I hope to leave this system running unattended in Austin, crashes are a very bad thing. Help???
My system config: Old 40MHz 386 8 meg RAM - (8) 1 meg 30-pin SIMMS old I/O controller with large DTC 2280 chip. (2) Quantum 6.4 Gb bigfoot drives EGA card -- Matt