On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 18:55, Arturo Fermin Jimenez wrote: > Thanks, you have given me a starting point. Looing further up on DMESG I > found: > > hdb: AÃ?AÃ?I DÃ?DÂRÃ?M 1¶XÃ?aø , ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Can you double check the cabling on that drive ? or if possible, try a different one ? Additionally, seeing if it still misbehaves on a channel on its own (Ie, move it to secondary master) would be interesting. Dave