Hi everybody, In the meantime, I have found the culprit for the problem: it was indeed a hardware problem and the IDE connector cable (the one between the harddrive and the IDE card) seems to be defect. After replacing it, everything works fine!
I first thought, it was the RAM but this does not seem to be the case as I can compile the Linux kernel fine, and this repeatedly, etc. I am very glad to have fixed the problem and would like to thank you, the readers and in particular, Michael Schmitz, Rick Thomas, and Ken Moffat, very much for their help. I would not have been able to fix it alone. And I learned to look at error messages more carefully: the SMART error message about ICRC error (**interface** CRC error) actually told me where to search for the error, but it took some time till I understood. Thanks, Kaspar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
