> Does it work better if you leave it stitched off for a while? No.
> I took the drive out of the caddy and installed SuSE 9.2. It worked > perfectly first time. I haven't had any problems with it since. Good point. With a bit of swapping I can now say that the problem does not seem to involve caddies and involves two drives on the same cable. If I pull out hdb, copying hda->hdc and hdc->hda works fine. Any combo of hda and hdb fails. > Maybe you should try taking the drive out of the caddy and see if that > makes any difference. I could try that out, but the system's owner needs the caddies, so "more cables" seems to be the way to go. > LM sensors show reasonable values? Don't have it set up. Wouldn't do its owner much good. > What about the HDD temperatures from smartctl? Fine (early 30s). > Some more specifics on the motherboard may be useful as it could be > something else. Also, there was that dodgy capacitor issue with > motherboards around that pedigree (266/333 motherboards). Sorry but I can't find out the mobo maker by looking at the mobo. Don't have the manual with me. Thanks everyone! Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
