I have in the past experienced that same issue with interrupted transfers of data. It was the hardware, some times it just don't like the OS and visa versa. I am at present running an Intel D845EBG2 Motherboard, P4 Celeron 2GHz 400MHz FSB, 1GB RAM, 3Com 3C985SX NIC. The NIC is a 3Com Gigabit over fibre but any of the Intel or 3Com gigabit cards should be very fast and reliable.
There are a number of them on Ebay, some with processor and memory. I ran mine with 512MB for a long time but added in a second 512GB DIMM just because I had it laying around. There seemed to be little difference in performance though with the added memory. It has been exceptionally stable and I have never had one issue with it transferring large amounts of data. In fact I have moved over 1TB of data at once with not one problem. Transfers run in the 30MB/sec range and have been as high as 38MB/sec sustained when on the outside or end of the disk.
Before you go and buy a new everything try moving the cards around, this may solve the problem as there may well be conflicts for IRQs. This has worked for me in the past.
Mike
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