On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, ShieldX wrote:

> While using Debian Woody, working with large backup files,
> the computer completely locks up while reading/writing to/from the disk
> whenever I use "cp" on large files,
> The same thing happens on every other Woody box I have.

A couple years ago, I had similar problems when dd'ing entire
harddisks. Our fix was an
upgrade to a newer kernel, and we never tracked down the specific
problems.

Did you get any errors at the console? What kernel did you use?

> I tried doing the same thing on a Mandrake 8.2 box, with no freeze-up.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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