Hello,

I recently bought a new 40gb laptop HD to replace my old 20gb one. Now I'm 
having hard lockups that I've never seen before. Does anyone know if a new 
HD is a likely culprit?

My laptop:

  IBM Thinkpad R31
  Celeron 1133mhz
  384 mb ram (upgraded from 128mb)
  40 gb hd (upgraded from 20gb)
  Intel 830/810/whatever video chipset

I've had very good stability with this laptop in the past, but now these 
lockups are baffling me. I didn't change much:

I replaced the old 20gb hd with the new Seagate one, I transferred the 
contents to the new one, with the help of my PC as an intermediate temp 
storage device. I then recompiled my kernel to support reiserfs, as I 
changed from JFS (this is a terrible fs IMO, don't use it).

(I won't post the method I used to migrate the data, its pretty convoluted 
and I can't rule out any problems caused by this, but I think everything's 
okay, I just want to know if anyone can tell me whether or not the HD 
could be causing this problem)

Right now I'm using the generic PIIx chipset driver, should I be using a 
different IDE driver? Does anyone else have this laptop that can post 
their kernel config (preferably a 2.6.x config)?

Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks much,
-Mike.


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