Re: Disk related system hangs

2001-07-10 Thread Mike McGuire
> (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

Disk related system hangs

2001-07-09 Thread Ross Boylan
For the 2nd time in about a month my system has hung while trying to access the disk. The first time the performance gradually deteriorated, and when I switch to a virtual console (if that's the lingo: ctl-alt-F1) I saw lots of errors about being unable to access the hard drive. It became complet