Hello, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? I am receiving these in my log file and do not know what they mean or what to look for; Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:28:42:d3:37/00:00:13:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 20480 in Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: res 51/40:22:64:d3:37/40:00:13:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: Info fld=0x4000000 (nonstd), Invalid sda: sense = 72 11 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 322425666 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3: EH complete These are only happening during my daily cron jobs. Here is the dir for cron.daily cron.daily $ lsl total 164 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 2 01:59 ./ drwxr-xr-x 108 root root 12288 Mar 8 06:03 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Oct 19 2008 00-logwatch -> ../log.d/scripts/logwatch.pl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 418 Nov 17 2007 00-makewhatis.cron* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135 Feb 21 2005 00webalizer* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 276 Feb 21 2005 0anacron* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 125 Jan 2 01:59 apcstatus* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123 Jan 2 01:56 apcstatus~* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1042 Jan 29 2008 certwatch* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94 May 2 2009 chkrootkit* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74 May 6 2009 connections* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 180 Jul 25 2008 logrotate* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2133 Dec 1 2004 prelink* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104 Jun 1 2009 rpm* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121 Nov 16 2007 slocate.cron* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 286 Jun 1 2009 tmpwatch* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74 Feb 29 2008 yum.check* -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 179 Sep 1 2009 yum.cron -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 192 Sep 1 2009 yum.cron.org -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 164 Sep 3 2009 zulu* I'm at a lose for what could be causing this. Thank you very much for your help. -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org