Sorry about this. I dropped a cd into the cdrom drive, mounted it and it stopped. Please forgive my intrusion. Greg **************************************************************************** ** Hello. The software updater on my Fedora Core 6 just upped my kernel from version 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6-i586 to 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-i586. Immediately after rebooting the drive is being accessed about once per second with this string of messages in /var/log/messages: Mar 10 17:47:46 fedora kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Mar 10 17:47:46 fedora kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Mar 10 17:47:46 fedora kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command A number of other packages were updated at the same time, however I had no such disk activity prior to this. Has anyone else experienced this effect? Any suggestions? Thank you in advance! Greg.