Joel Soete wrote:

> Just to be sure that I well understand: do you mean that you tried the 
> same operation when runing 2.4.x and 2.6.x?
Yes, I tried to untar kernel source both under 2.4 and 2.6. No 
difference, if it was stock, or custom compiled kernel. It hangs 
randomly under heavy disc load.

> The very first step would be that you send us a dmesg.
Attached. This particular kernel seems to be most stable on my machine, 
which surprises me after few months on the list.

> As it seems to be a disk pb: check the scsi chain [...]
I've double checked this, but everything seems to be fine.

> If you still have a diagnostic hp cd, boot with this one and check the 
> disks.
I'll try to figure out this, but I'm afraid the only CDs we have are 
with HP-UX 10.20 :(

This machine worked as network monitoring station with HP-UX/HP OV on 
it, it has never reported any problems with any disk.

Regards,
BO