On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:34:41 -0600, Donn Washburn wrote:

? are you using the 80 IDE cable? Try hdparm --help and see if it will tell you anything. Also what file system are you using. I have heard reiser may give you problems. But after about 5 years of reiser as the main file sytem type - no problem.

also check " /usr/sbin/smartctl "

Unfortunately the problem show up even before the disk is partitioned so filesystems have little to do with it. Yes, I'm using the 80 cable and most of my partitions are reiserfs, but the problem manifests itself way before we get to filesystem level. The 'funny' thing is that linux 2.4.x doesn't have this issue, although I have not yet run tests in that environment, I think. Maybe of no consequence, but one of the connectors on the disk is 'half-height' and can be moved back and both about half a millimetre. No clue as to why.... /Martin.