Thanks Thomas,Robin and Esbin too but I'm a bit new here for that. I'm still curious about the following bit: On Sunday 09 May 2004 04:15, John wrote: >This time I will install to the SATA's as > separate discs but this will mean that I may well add additional IDE discs > later. Does the system handle this. I often copy stuff across from old > discs following an upgrade and I usually keep them for a while in case > there is something I forgot. This means that discs come and go. Will the > system handle this? As an illustration. I just removed a scsi dvd drive and controller card from this machine. On the next power up KDE found new hardware. This is a dvd writer on ide that was allready there working and configured. I now have 2 on the desktop. Will this happen each time I remove something? How can I remove the ghost drive? Should I have just ignored the add hardware pop up if I do something like this again? Regards John ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.