Hello I seem to be getting some messages via email and in var/log/messages as well, i think its a hard drive gone bad but was wondering if anyone has seen something similar to this or would have some ideas if its fixable or not, here are the messages This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: localhost.localdomain DNS domain: localdomain NIS domain: (none) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/hda, 993 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown thanks for any ideas. LostSon