Hey, this is kind of strange, because this is not the first time I've shut the computer down since i started having the problem with ide1 (my cdrom and cdrw0. I had also shut it down for several hours sunday night/Monday morning. However, early this morning when I went to bed, I still had no irq for ide1 and only hdc was opening. This morning I got up and turned on the computer and booted linux. Just to re-confirm the worst, I tried opening the cdrom and it opened. then i tried mounting both and they mounted. I assume that when hdd timed out it took the whole ide with it somehow but I don't know why it finally came back or what i could have maybe killed or reactiviated to have fixed it sooner. anyway, I'm very happy I don't have to pay to get it fixed. Cheryl
