hard drive problems

[Nathaniel Alderson]

I am having problems with my hard rive and would appreciate any 
assistance troubleshooting.  I am running the 64 bit version of FC2 with 
an AMD Athalon with
a IDE hard drive.

The problem is occasionally I have to reboot the machine because I/O 
with the hard rive stops working. I have seen a couple different error 
messages, but can't remember them verbatim. I will copy them down next 
time I see them. When I reboot everything seems to be O.K.

The problem manifests itself most often when I am doing I/O intensive 
things like downloading/installing updates but has occurred when at 
other times as well.

Any pointers on how to track down the problem would be appreciated.

Nate