BTW, discovered some interesting things...
How old are the Dell's you had issues with and what "chipset" are they.
A whole slew of things has recently come up having to do with "apparent" corruption of SATA and certain PATA drives.
LKML has been really hot and heavy about getting the hard folks happily kept while they find and fix these hard to find but readily found in the wild problems.
All versions of nForce with kernels 2.6.11 or 12 through 2.6.20.
Some versions Intel Pro/Centrino/i8** chipsets 2.6.12 through 2.6.20
Some VIA chipsets mainly the Newer ones for P4 and KT880 or more recent
some SiS chipsets, since about 4 years ago... unsure of processors supported.
Its a chase, that is supposed to be fixed by 2.6.20.5, 2.6.20.6 or even 2.6.21. Exactly when things are fixed, I dunno. Many of the problems are off-by-one issues, due to some refactoring of and improvements made to core code ~ 2.6.[11|12]. Much of the problematic code is stuff written under NDA'd documents from said manufacturers, and not the new model for "drivers by kernel maintainers" stuff recently.
There is significant motivation to fix these things. Etch has only one of the latent bugs with nForce which can be worked around during the install and will be remembered on kernel install. It will be fixed upon the next either security or "globally" affecting bug in the kernel for Etch update. Or when Etch-r1 is released, which ever is first.
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