hi there, experiencing the kernel freeze on suse 9.0 on a remote system. as soon as i upgrade to the latest kernel, the kernel will always freeze when the /dev/hdc drive is attached. booting fine when /dev/hdc is disconnected. btw, i also have a very old box pentium1 some megabytes running suse 9.0 with the latest kernel, with a 4.3gig ide drive, that didnt show any problems. any news about these lockups with the new kernel? any eta for fixes? thanks and cheers, andy affected system below. parts of dmesg output with the old/working kernel ---------- <4>hda: ST320423A, ATA DISK drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>hdc: Maxtor 32049H2, ATA DISK drive <4>hdd: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6302B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 <4>hda: max request size: 128KiB <6>hda: 40011300 sectors (20485 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=39693/16/63, UDMA(33) <6> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 <4>hdc: max request size: 128KiB <6>hdc: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39704/16/63, UDMA(100) Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20485785600 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2490 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/hdc: 20.4 GB, 20491075584 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes /dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/hda3 on /usr type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/hda4 on /var type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/hdc1 on /opt/opt2 type reiserfs (rw) 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 04) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 11) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 11) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 11) 0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 11) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 11) 0000:00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 11) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) 0000:02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] 0000:02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] 0000:02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) Detected 601.498 MHz processor. CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 03