Hi, can anyone give me a tip what happens . -------------------snip from dmesg------------------ hdf: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdf: drive not ready for command FastTrak : Drive Interrupt Time Out.(2) FastTrak : RESET Channel1 * DEV1(OK) DEV2(OK) ----------------------------------------------------- The compleate dmesg... Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 131056 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 126960 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=802 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 hda=ide-scsi ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1535.251 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 3060.53 BogoMIPS Memory: 513728k/524224k available (1125k kernel code, 10108k reserved, 802k data, 296k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ stepping 02 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb690, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0 PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16) Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:09.1 Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 992 slots per queue, batch=248 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa408-0xa40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio PDC20270: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0d.0 PDC20270: chipset revision 2 PDC20270: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide2: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hda: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4012A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1612, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive hdf: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive hdg: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive hdh: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xcc00-0xcc07,0xd002 on irq 10 ide3 at 0xd400-0xd407,0xd802 on irq 10 blk: queue c037494c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hde: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, UDMA(100) blk: queue c0374a98, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdf: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, UDMA(100) blk: queue c0374cb0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdg: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, UDMA(100) blk: queue c0374dfc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdh: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, UDMA(100) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hde: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 hdf: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] hdf1 hdf2 hdf3 hdg: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] hdg1 hdg2 hdh: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] hdh1 hdh2 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 290k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:05.0 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.5 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs Vendor: HP Model: C1533A Rev: HP00 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 PROMISE FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.02.0.22 scsi1 : FastTrak Vendor: Promise Model: 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: Promise Model: 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 120103137 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB) sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 SCSI device sdb: 120103137 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB) sdb: sdb1 sdb2 Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1) Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -2) Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -3) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 07:48:41 Apr 18 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0b.1 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa800, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0b.1 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xac00, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on sd(8,2), internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on sd(8,18), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on sd(8,3), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. st: Version 20020205, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W4012A Rev: 1.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 hda: DMA disabled hdc: DMA disabled PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0b.1 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 00:08.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xb000. Vers LK1.1.16 hdf: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdf: drive not ready for command FastTrak : Drive Interrupt Time Out.(2) FastTrak : RESET Channel1 * DEV1(OK) DEV2(OK) es1371: version v0.30 time 07:48:13 Apr 18 2002 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0f.0 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x08 es1371: found es1371 rev 8 at io 0xc800 irq 10 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23) Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! Thanx Maurice -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net