Well, I sprayed the board connector with electronic parts cleaner and tried three different cables, including two brand new ones, with no change in the number of errors. I did, however, put the troublesome HD on the second IDE connector, and shazam, no errors. An older 40G drive I put in as the master on the main IDE connector generated the same errors as the new drive that was there before. Looks like the on-board ATA has gone flaky, at least at one of the connectors.
For now I'll just keep using the big drive as drive-3 until I can get a cheapo replacement motherboard.
-Ed
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