Hi, I am having some interesting problems occuring on one of my linux machines. I was hoping someone out there has seen this problem before. I have search the redhat archives with no success. So here it goes :-) after an appearant successful boot up I get the following series of messages on my screen after the login prompt. hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {Busy} hda: drive not ready for command ide0: reset: sucess of course I get a lot of disk trashing to go along with this. boot up sometimes fails with messages like Error 0x01 or Error 0x02. Sometimes the boot up is successful other times I get messagess like Kernal Panic Ext2-fs panic (dev 03:04) . or more recently a successful boot with the following lines before the prompt. hda: read_intr: status =0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest error } hda: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } This is particularly frustrating because I have just successfully set up networking between this machine and my other linux host. And I have to get some work done on ssh and samba for my job. Any help would be appreciated. Addtiional information, the system is a AMD system card and a Pentium P5 chip, running redhat v4.1. the Bios has PnP configured but I have disabled the pnp settings on my network card. I have absolutely no idea as to how to proceed on troubleshooting this problem. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.