On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:39:38AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:35, zbert wrote: > > During my boot sequence, this daemon always fails. Can anybody clue me > > in as to what it is and how I might fix it? > > It's a monitor for IDE hard disks. I've also seen it fail to start in > some cases, but only on systems that don't actually have any IDE hard > disks (CDroms don't count.) > > --Stephen Two other things. Some older disks don't support this daemon. Also I noticed there is an option to enable this service in the BIOS of one of my machines. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx