Civileme wrote:
> We are obviously dealing with something very subtle at the
> edge--the bleeding edge it would seem. What is different about
> Seagate drives? I tried Fujitsu, Maxtor, IBM, and Quantum in the
> same position and none showed the problem. It seems to take
> three conditions
>
> 1. Large Seagate Drive (8.4G or bigger)
> 2. VIA MVP3 or MVP4 chipset Super7 motherboard with IDT, AMD,
> INtel, or Cyrix processor
> 3. Linux-Mandrake 6.0 6.1(6.5MacMillan) or 7.0
Civileme, please have a look at this (if you didn't already):
http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt20000214_54.epl (the 2nd item)
While it is not exactly the same problem, it has also to do
with "lost interrupt" and it seems to be a pure hardware problem.
--
Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
