I've had some troubles with hardware on a 1U server I have running Fedora Core1. The slave drive seems to be the main issue. The original slave drive came up with a bunch of bad sector errors after only a short time deployed. Now I made a copy of the slave drive and put in a new one. I'm still having troubles with this drive now..although different issues. On start up I get in dmsg: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success But under really heavy load, I start will see the following come up and a manual reboot is required: May 25 14:45:12 startbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,66)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=9618429, block=19234849 And then it will start this on reboot May 25 15:37:08 startbox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:42 (hdb), sector 142873472 May 25 15:37:08 startbox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:42 (hdb), sector 38333656 May 25 15:37:09 startbox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:42 (hdb), sector 38333656 So do I have a problem with IDE drivers in this kenerl from the Fedora core 1 CDs ? Info about my system: ASRock P4S1 MoBo with SiS 661FX Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5 SIS5513: chipset revision 0 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST380011A, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 6Y080L0, ATA DISK drive Mark Susol ------------------------------- u l t i m a t e CreativeMedia Web | Print | CD Media | eCommerce www.ultimatecreativemedia.com Ph: 301-668-0588