check the power connector on that drive. I had one fail because of that. Technomage On Tuesday 29 January 2002 00:45, you wrote: > My computer runs RedHat 7.1 dual-booted with Windows 98. > I am having a problem under both systems where one of > the disks seems to be balking -- taking sometimes a > few seconds to respond. This is one of three physical > IDE drives, so the problem is sporadic. >