It may be another wild goose chase - as I am sorry to say that I haven't followed your thread - if you disable say your primary IDE controller and swap disks over to the secondary and then observe the systems behaviour. I am thinking of IDE controller problems.
Just a thought. Regards, Raj ::>not increase count. I look down at the case, the hard disk ::>activity light ::>is permanently on. Oh no, the freezes are back. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
