Hi Sergey, > Is the partition table correct? Maybe the partition extends beyond > the end of physical disk for some reason, and when the kernel tries to > access last blocks of the partition, it actually tries to read sectors > beyond the actual drive capacity, which fails and exposes broken error > handling in the Promise IDE driver. > > I have added the linux-ide mailing list to Cc: - problems related to > IDE/ATA drivers (both old IDE, which you are using currently, and > newer libata) should be discussed there. Last night I copied all data on the /dev/hdg2 partition to other partitions, removed the /dev/hdg2 partition and recreated it. Currently everything works flawless !!! Apparently there is a bug in the promise IDE pdc202xx_new.c driver :) Thank you very much for the help!!! Regards, Guido Diepen -- Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. --Eddie Rickenbacker - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html