> I've finally made up my mind to report this one, though I'm aware
> that it could also be a hardware problem.
>
> I'm getting IDE disks timeouts which cause my machine to hang. This
> usually happens during very heavy swapping activity, but it can
> also happen when copying large amounts of data (some 100MB).
Your poor little IDE driver is getting overworked... I see them too
here with IDE drives.
Its worse in 2.1.x, probably because it makes the driver work harder.
I fixed it by moving to SCSI.
-cw
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