On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:47 -0700, ann kok wrote: > I tried different good harddrives and also get this > error message from dmesg > > What is the problem? > > hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete > Error } > hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 Usually indicates a bad disc, but if you've got a bad power supply or a bad cable, you could have similar induced errors. I don't know whether incorrect jumpering of the drives (master/slave/etc) might cause error messages like that, too. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.