On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:32:53PM -0400, Prof J C Nash wrote: > Because of intermittent nature of troubles, Intermittent often means a power supply issue. Disconnect the other drives and see if the problems persist. You could also have a problems with the order and manner the dvd-ram and PCI IDE drivers are loaded. Some distrobutions might run those devices in a SCSI emulation mode. Try to diagnose the problems with only one live-cd or distrobution. I find the following command quite usefull when trying to determine which drive is which: # fdisk -l /dev/DDD Where DDD is sda, sdb, hda, etc. Ofcourse 'dmesg | less' is also usefull. -- sg