I bought a maximus 486/66 dual scan media book as a portable netbsd box, 
but it seems to have problems with the hard disk crashing and spitting up 
errors about timeouts.  When this happens I have to cold boot the 
machine.  Does anyone else have the same problem?  I'm wondering whether 
this is a drive problem where I could get a replacement, or whether it is 
a software problem, like a known bug for notebooks or something.  I do 
have the HD power management disabled in the BIOS.

Also, has anyone had any success in using sound in media notebooks?  It 
seems to play the first half-second of the sample, and then hangs.  This 
is from catting the ULAW file into /dev/audio.

I had to cob together a sendmail.cf file to send this, so it probably 
isn't right.  My email addresses are:
lruppert@chialpha.org
lruppert@npac.syr.edu

Thanks,
-Lou
(who has considered playing notebook-discus and notebook-shot-put a few 
times tonight...)