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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> I've gone some considerable distance towards tracking down a crash
> that seems to resemble the problem dave's been seeing.
> 
>
[stuff deleted..]
turns out it was a hardware problem..
some IDE chipsets an ddrives were incapable of running on 
a ribbon cable over about 40cm (16") long.


just to make sure this topic is finishd..