On 2 Jan 2004, Kevin wrote: > While I wait, I was just wondering if anyone has seen this before with > intense disk i/o like this? Yes. Back in July of 2002, I received a "kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:145!" when dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=uipgmrgja9dd4c%40corp.supernews.com&output=gplain Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/