On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:03:01AM -0400, khromy wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:57:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Possibly what is happening is that the /tmp partition lies on > > a part of the disk which has a higher platter transfer speed > > and this higher speed is causing retries or other problems > > further down the chain. > > > > You could have a fiddle with hdparm, try slowing down the > > interface speed. Try a different set of cables, too. > > Just tried with dma disabled, same problem. I'm gonna try another IDE > controller and see if it still happens. I just tried with my Promise UDMA100 card with another cable and same problem. Any other ideas? Should I try rc1-aa1? -- L1: khromy ;khromy(at)lnuxlab.ath.cx