William L. Maltby wrote:
Have you looked at it with hdparm? If it's a "S.M.A.R.T." capable drive, have you used smart tools (smartmon?) on it? Now I know you only changed the OS, but I just went through this (different symptoms) when hardware started to abdicate its responsibilities around the same time I upgraded a couple things (seamonkey, e.g.).
Actually it is a CD-ROM. I guess I should have stated that in the original post.
I found a few things googling around I want to try - starting with hdc=noprobe or ide1=noprobe. This box is a production server, so I'm going to have to wait to reboot.
Thanks Jamie