> > > > I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during > > install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are > > you running hdparm and doing anything to soup up to UDMA or anything? > > What about when you install. regular or expert install? Do you click the > > option on hard drives that activates LBA or UDMA or something. I'm sorry > > I can't remember what that option is. > > Interesting point... I wonder. Dark, if you run say, makewhatis do you > have the same problem? Since the two are similar in intensity and > action it might help in finding the common thread. If it doesn't die... > I'd go back to urpme urpmi .... > > James
Sorry for butting in -- have you tried disabling DMA? hdparm -d0 /dev/hdX && updatedb .. HTH Damian
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