>I had this exact problem the other night with an IDE drive.. It just froze up
>during an IO intensive operation..  Machine immediately HUNG solid..  was about
>to reboot when I noticed it came back to life for a breif second.  

Most likely this was not the "exact problem" he was seeing.  In your
case, it sounds like you might have a drive going bad.  In his case,
it was a SCSI bus error, which 99% likely was either loose SCSI cables
or bad termination.

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