Yup, it's definitely fedora's fault, not my hardware.

[Paul Tomblin]

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.


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