In article <1283667052-50702@unixborg.net> otaku@unixborg.net (Josh Hope) writes:
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>My swap partition is on a Maxtor 500MB drive, while the /usr partition is 
>on a Western Digital 1GB drive. The root partition resides with swap on 
>the Maxtor (and the root partition passed the file system checks on 
>startup).

It looks like you have been bitten by the same bug as I have. 2 IDE drives
that support different pio and dma modes. Maybe you can post your dmesg
output to see the exact controller type and disk access modes. Manuel
put in a patch in the pciide driver to fix the problem, but I have not
been able to test it. Try to build a kernel with this patch, or force
both drives to use the same modes (the lowest supported by both drives)
by using the flags in the wd? devices.

christos