> (snip description of HD troubles) Up til now sounds like it could be a flaky driver, or HD, or chipset...
> I have not had this problem while under other OS's on the same > machine. ...but if that's the case it's probably a driver. > I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.2 built from the kernel source > package. The disks are IDE; my main working disk is Maxtor13G, with > 33 as its peak xfer rate (this is from my memory). I have a Gigabyte > GA 71XE4 motherboard, with AMD chips (756 is probably the relevant > one). Athlon 800 MHz CPU. > > Is this any kind of a known kernel problem? Or does it ring any > bells? The symptoms make me suspect this is a software problem, > though perhaps that's being optimistic. Since you've got an AMD, you might / probably have a VIA chipset, which I've heard problems about. I don't have one, so I can't say for sure, and you should probably search for more info on it, but here's what I can think of: - if you can get into linux, and have hdparm installed, you can try turning off DMA and stuff. this might even be possible with kernel options at the LILO prompt. - find out what IDE chipset you have, and look for it in the kernel config, and search too. http://www.google.com/linux is good. > Thanks. sure thing. HTH. Mike McGuire