I had this happen when using a 36" IDE cable on a Promise 133TX controller
card. I switched to a 24" cable and the write errors went away. The cable
was new and rated for ATA133, but I have since seen that the standard for
IDE cable is 24" or less. So, make sure the cable is rated for the
application you are using -- (24" and 80 conductor).

Worth a check.

Jim Maki
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Davies

>
> I keep getting a delayed write error which slowly kills my
> programs.  Does anybody have any ideas?  Microsoft
> doesn't...maybe bad hardware???
> This is on a Del 8200 p4 with 384m of memory, 3 disk on a
> Koutech pci controller running XP Pro sp2
>
> --
> David

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