When I put the HD on ide2 and do the appropriate changes (ide=reverse) The systemn is more stable. I am getting the following message when moving data around. There seems to be a little corruption of the directory stucture, Specifically in /usr/src/linux which I just used to compile the kernel.
Config - 2.4.2-ac12, 20g IBM drive UDMA33, HD on Highpoint controller, UDMA100, ide2 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,10)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #32447: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 cp: /usr/src/linux/ipc/util.c: Input/output error cp: /usr/src/linux/ipc/Makefile: Input/output error cp: /usr/src/linux/ipc/util.h: Input/output error cp: /usr/src/linux/drivers: Input/output error