I really appreciate the effort you and others have put into helping me with this problem. Unfortunately, I won't be able do things like compile a 2.5 kernel or re-boot with ide0=ata66, until I return from work in about 5 days time. I don't want to do stuff like that remotely.
The first thing I will try will be to re-boot with that ide setting passed to the kernel since I think the problem may be related to my motherboard using a VIA VT8235 chipset. Then I will work from there. In fact, I am seriously considering purchasing another harddisk the same as this one and then RAIDing them. My motherboard supports RAID0 and RAID1 and at the very least I would be able to see what the other drive can do and compare. Then I can complain on my warranty if this drive is truly got problems. However, the downside to this approach is that if it is merely a driver support issue then I will have two drives that are not supported well. Hmmmm. Cheers. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
