On Jan 19, 2008 5:50 PM, rgheck <rgheck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know if your problems are similar to mine or not. But I have > been having extensive problems for quite some time now. Do you get these > timeouts when using optical drives? No, I don't see any connections to optical drives here. I have a DVD drive and a DVDRW drive on a PATA controller in the failing system but I have not used them for weeks. Regards, Jim - 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