hi everyone, I've read a number of dialogues on the archives concerning the errors below which I'm getting but have not found any answers: I'm running RedHat 7.0 (2.4.9 kernel + LVM 1.0.1rc1) on a little PIII box and I'm using the ide controllers built into the motherboard (drivers built into the kernel - not modules). I have CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE set to y in the .config for the kernel. The drive is an IBM-DTLA-307030 (as reported by /proc/ide) and is brand new. here are the errors: Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: ide1: reset: success I've been moving data in and out of the drive and everything seems ok but I get lots of the above errors which leaves me with a queasy feeling... anyone know what the deal is with this? 1k thx - e