On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jeff Nelson wrote: > A system I built about a month ago is hanging whenever I do any > significant disk I/O. In particular, the system will hang when I use tar > to transfer a bunch of files from an NTFS-formatted disk to a > reiserfs-formatted disk (using tar). This is a hard hang -- the mouse > pointer freezes and nothing except a hardware reset will bring the > system back. I'd play with hdparm and turning down the I/O speed of the drive, to see if the problem goes away. The other thing to check is to see if there's an updated IDE driver that might help. Brian