On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > So am I understanding you correctly that there is still no good way to > > tell if this was hdwe or a software failure? > > Well, I'm not really up on the details of IDE internals, but my armchair > knowledge tells me that there are lots of problems reported with IDE DMA. > Supposedly a lot of these problems are fixed in Andre Hedrick's code, > which are part of the recent -ac patches. > > If you have a system you can test I'd really suggest a newer kernel > (beta or whatever) given that you have had this problem a few times. Thanks for the info, I will give it a try. -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....