"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> Do you think it's worth trying the older kernel that I know works? Could
> a bug in 2.4.20 give this sort of error?
It still smells like a hardware issue to me --- but I'm running out of
ideas ... You might as well try the other kernel to see what happens.
regards, tom lane