Jeff Nelson wrote: > A system I built about a month ago is hanging whenever I do any > significant disk I/O. In particular, the system will hang when I use tar > to transfer a bunch of files from an NTFS-formatted disk to a > reiserfs-formatted disk (using tar). This is a hard hang -- the mouse > pointer freezes and nothing except a hardware reset will bring the > system back. > > There was an earlier hang that was resolved. When I was installing SuSE > 9.2 the system would hang while installing the software packages from > the DVD-RW drive. I goggled and found there is a known problem with the > ASUS A7N8X-E motherboard: the workaround is to add the boot option > "acpi_skip_timer_override". Apparently this is fixed in kernel 2.6.10, > but I haven't seen that available yet. I'm still running 2.6.8-24.10. > > I've added just one PCI card, a Promise Technology disk controller, with > two disks (one on each controller). The motherboard primary IDE > controller has 2 disks as well; the secondary controller has just a > DVD-RW. The video card is an AGP GeForce FX 5500. > > Here's output of lspci. Any suggestions appreciated. > > Thanks. > > -Jeff Jeff, If possible, install the NTFS drive(s) into a windows box and copy via samba. I did this while converting a computer from windows to Linux and it works really well. Good Luck.