> 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. The other motherboard I have is from an old 486 computer, but that didn't have any luck with Linux at all. It's a totally unstable computer. I'll try Debian, though, if I ever find the time. But the motherboard is very old. I'd think it'd be more capable of causing problems than my current one.
> 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. I'll try the hdparm thing and some of you guys' other suggestions. Thanks! -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/
