Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net> 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? > > Your problem may not be with HAL. I have had similar, intermittent > problems, recently, with various symptoms, including that K3b could > not find my CD-RW drive or media in it. I just finished writing to > CD-R media with K3b with that CD-RW drive. In the case of my Desktop, > I now know that the motherboard is damaged. Since you wrote that you > have a problem with more than one piece of HW, I hope in your case it > isn't the motherboard. You can run Diagnostics on the HW, which I did > last Sunday, with the Dell Diagnostics for this box, but my HW got a > clean bill of health, since it is intermittent. GL! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks for the suggestions, Lanny. I opened my box and reseated my IDE connectors...just in case. Then I rebooted twice and came up roses each time. Let's hope this is a trend. Happy Holidays to one and all! Dick -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin 1755