On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:28:26AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Hmm.  My desktop system appeared completely dead (I didn't try to
> > ping it, had no other machine here at that time).  XFree didn't work,
> > mouse pointer froze etc.  After a few minutes the system was back
> 
> Maybe it was trying to swap

With 1 GB of RAM, I doubt it .. but I guess it's _possible_.

> > alive.  The weird thing is that there were no messages in syslog
> > about the problem.  I didn't even know this was a disk problem until
> > the disk locked up so bad that I had to power-cycle the system.
> 
> No message in dmesg either ?

Nope.  Is there any loop in the driver with no timeout and no printf()
where the IDE bus/disk could block?

  -jm