On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 12:12 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > <snip> > >><snip> > Sometimes a few of the PATA to USB interfaces do some strange things to I/O > streams. I have a drive that would consistently lock my old XP workstations > USB interfaces, but works fine on the new one. Although I don't *think* this is related, can't tell. I have some new Tosh USB drives that I used to serve ISO images for CentOS on my 4.6 Centos. If I let them run overnight, they would lock the system. I moved them to the fully updated 5.2 CentOS and the problem disappeared. If you have a 5.2 that is not fully updated (kernel and drivers are my guess as to potential problems), maybe there is a causal relationship there. Also, the 4.6 has a VIA KT-400A chipset while the 5.2 has a KT880 chipset. SO two more potential areas to check there. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill