The message 002301c5cf88$e9755590$b9364d51@bartonsbyi3pwy from "Adrian Kiddle" adrian@quinto.freeserve.co.uk contains these words:
I'm not expert with linux but I've put a few boxes together.
I think the problem may be the 2 slaves on IDE Channel 2. I think each IDE channel needs to have one master.
Well, I made the HD (HD1) master first time round, and the Zip wouldn't work properly - it would *SEEM* to be fine, but I think it must have been doing everything in RAM, 'cos it would view/edit so many files (mainly jpegs), then the system would chunter away to itself, transferring chat betwen zip and the HDs. This took upwards of five minutes, and then everything would burst into life again.
Changing HD1 from master to slave fixed that problem...