[olivares@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep hd* known hdd: status error: status=0x40 { DriveReady } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: status error: status=0x40 { DriveReady } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: status error: status=0x40 { DriveReady } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: status error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: status error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: s[olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 #1 SMP Sat Mar 10 19:15:16 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux I have disconnected the drives and reconnected them. Still the same issue. The Bios picks them up and then kde tells me that there is a new cd inside and there is none. Hal returns an error [olivares@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa hal* hal-cups-utils-0.6.5-1.fc6 hal-0.5.8.1-6.fc6 hal-devel-0.5.8.1-6.fc6 [olivares@localhost ~]$ Bios is a bit old, but was working well for FC3, FC4, and now FC6. Please advice me on what actions should I take. Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php