On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:52:55 +0200 Przemyslaw Gawronski <pgg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 Your drive has falled off the IDE bus and doesn't seem interested in coming back. That could be several things but the usual starting point is cabling and/or heat. It could also in theory be a firmware problem we are triggering somehow which is crashing the device or us feeding it something we shouldn't have. Alan