Re: Woody stops working without cause!?!

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Eddie said:
>  This is a wierd one! I have a dual boot (WinXP\Debian) and until last

sounds like a hardware problem. maybe ide controller, maybe your
trying to force DMA mode on a controller/disk that is not very good
at DMA(at least under linux). Maybe the disk is dieing(this would
be my guess). Maybe the cable is going bad, maybe the cable is too
long(IDE spec requires cables to be 18").

but the hda lost interrupt would tell me its either a driver or
a hardware issue, most likely hardware ..

Abit BP6 has a history of bad problems(I was the unfortunate owner
of one for over a year and spent that year trying to make it stable
some revs are bad others are not so bad), though I am not certain of any
specific problems related to the IDE controller.  If your using the
highpoint controller I would reccomend you switch to the onboard intel
controller instead.


nate