B. Szyszka wrote: > > Like I said, I can't afford to OK, but for me it remains the only convincing test. As it happens I have a couple of old pentium 75 motherboards at home and I just imagined that maybe you or somebody you knew also had stuff like that that you could use for a test, temporarily.
Otherwise, I'd start down the "turn off go faster modes until it works reliably" track as already suggested; the same approach can fix Sig-11s. Check out the tool hdparm as well as tweaking the dma in the kernel. Andrew
