Heh.. and Tomas Lund has just posted here reporting a FLUSH CACHE EXT error, the first one I've ever seen (probably missed some, by the sounds of things). Look for subject line: Need help understanding SATA error message. 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