On 15/04/11 22:01, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
I have a couple of thoughts. I'm sure on occasions, I've had "disk errors" when in fact, the problem was that the CMOS battery was flat. The machine would detect the disk parameters sometimes, but not reliably remember it.
Well I can confirm that switching to a second hand 80GB disk solved the problem so it does seem to be size related in my case.