I've written before about the problems I've had since I upgraded to Fedora Core 3 (from RedHat 9). In a nutshell, since doing so, any attempt to do anything at all intensive with the hdc drive has led to all sorts of errors, mostly complaining about dma problems and problems with the IDE controller itself. This drive and everything else has been working fine for two years or so with no problems. Just as a test, tonight I booted it into single user mode with a non-smp kernel (and specifying the noapic argument just in case). I attempted to tar some stuff onto the hdc drive, and it froze up. So I booted it in a Mandrake Move CD (which uses a 2.4 kernel), and did the same thing, and it worked perfectly. Just to be sure, I also mounted my mp3 collection. In Fedora Core 3, just doing a "find /mp3s -type f -print" would get through a few hundred files and then quit. I did it in Mandrake Move and it completed just fine. Now if only I can figure out how to get back to a working system with something other than Fedora Core 3. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt
