On Friday 21 April 2006 15:33, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > FC5_64 > While I ran "yum update" on "init 3" following text displayed on the > screen continuously > ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 > ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 > ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 > ....... > another occasion was while clearning the installing files after > updating the packages > I have to press "reset" to re-start the PC. > The above text has been displayed occasionally on this PC even not > running "yum update" > What did this line indicate? How to avoid it. It could be a sign that your harddisk is failing. If you have precious data on it, you'd better quickly save them on to another disk. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 18:04:31 up 1:19, 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org