Man.. somebody needs to teach hald the difference between optical drives and tape drives.. It seems to just sit in a tight loop issuing the same failed commands over and over and over to the tape unit after boot. I had to kill it off to gain control of Fedora so I could actually *do* anything on the system. Weird. Any, Albert Lee has claimed the drive. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html