--- Ken Godee <ken at perfect-image.com> wrote: > > hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete > > Error } > > hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04Aborted Command > > > > Errr... might be a silly question, but you > didn't make it absolutely clear. > > Here's my start up message...... > > ===================================================== > hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { > DriveReady SeekComplete > Error } > hda: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04 > ===================================================== > > ahh, but missing the most important line of all > right > above it..... > > hda: COMPAQ CD-ROM SN-124, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > Are you running SCSI? > > Are you sure the your main hard drive is "hda"? > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Ken, thank you for bringing that to my attention. hda is my cdrom and that one is not imulating a scsi drive either. here is the info a few lines above the error message. audit subsystem ver 0.1 initialized Audit daemon registered (process 2535) parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready usb.c: registered new driver serial usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4 st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac2(RH1) via82cxxx: Six channel audio available PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: VIA97 (Unknown) via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE800, IRQ 5 via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11 via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11 via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11 via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11 via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11 hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04Aborted Command to me it looks like that damn audio is giving me troubles again. which i dont have audio install! Steven "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."