> Is the full error more like.... Naturally, sorry about that and here it goes: hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hde: drive not ready for command > The errors you are seeing, are they when you use media created on other > drives? Well in general, if I switch to text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) the message is being displayed every 5 seconds (without any media in drive). > When you used the drive in FC5 was it in the same system or did you > move the drive to a different system? It's on a new system, that I'm having some other issues also. It's gigabyte board and only the kernel from installation CD recognises the soundcard, non so far from the updated once have :( > Did you re-seat cables or change cables to see if the problem moves? Nope, I give that a try. Przemek -- AIKIDO TANREN DOJO - Poland - Warsaw - Mokotow - Ursynow - Natolin info: http://www.tanren.pl/ phone: +48501516666 email: dojo@xxxxxxxxx