Seems to be related to the sata ports that you dont have drives connected to :- ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB880 ctl 0xB802 bmdma 0xB080 irq 66 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB480 ctl 0xB402 bmdma 0xB088 irq 66 scsi2 : sata_nv ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xB887 scsi3 : sata_nv ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xB487 If it was the ports that you have drives on then I would be more worried ... Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.