Tosh wrote: > Dick Roth wrote: >> I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, haldaemon will >> fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available. >> >> Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can anyone suggest a >> solution? >> >> Thanks for listening, >> >> Dick >> > some more information would be helpful > what version of centos and hal > any fail reports > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Sorry about that: CentOS 5.2 (Final) hal-0.5.8.1-35.el5 Gigabyte P35-DS3R Motherboard I went through messages.* and found no direct references to HAL, but did notice messages like: Dec 6 20:02:40 c-75-69-199-70 kernel: hdf: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request. Both a WDC IDE hard drive and a Pioneer 112D CD/DVD Burner are on the only legacy IDE connector on the mobo, so I can't try a different IDE channel. Hope this helps clarify things. Dick -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin 1755