One possiblity may be the ide=autotune (not sure of exact syntax) arguments to the kernel on bootup (grub's menu.lst or lilo.conf). When 7.2 came out, I remember some complaints along these lines, the cure being to remove autotune and manually set up the disks using hdparm if neccessary. Or have you used hdparm and pushed the disks past their limits? BillK > > I have had this problem for a long time, since Mandrake 7.1. I find that no > matter what ftp app I use, if I try to download ANY file that is in the range > of 4 megs or greater, it will download to 100% but then the connection wont > terminate and it will just sit there stalled. >
