I checked my boot log today and found this within it: <6>scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface <4> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09 <4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 <4>sda : READ CAPACITY failed. <4>sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 <4>Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 <4>ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 <4>Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x11 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xff 0xfe 0x01 0x03 0x40 0x00 0x40 <4>sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. <6> sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> unable to read partition table <4>reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal <4>reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode <4>reiserfs: using ordered data mode <4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (ide0(3,4)) for (ide0(3,4)) <4>Using r5 hash to sort names <4>VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. <5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed <5>Unmounting old root <5>Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay <6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed <6>LVM version 1.0.5+(mp-v6a)(22/07/2002) module loaded <6>Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. <4>sda : READ CAPACITY failed. <4>sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 <4>Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 <4>ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 <4>Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x11 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xff 0xfe 0x01 0x03 0x40 0x00 0x40 <4>sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. <6> sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4>lost async page write due to I/O error on 08:00 <4> unable to read partition table <6>Adding Swap: 514072k swap-space (priority 42) <4>reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal <4>reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode <4>reiserfs: using ordered data mode <4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (ide0(3,3)) for (ide0(3,3)) <4>Using r5 hash to sort names <4>hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. <4>hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <4>hdb: attached ide-scsi driver. <6>scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX175A1 Rev: 5YS2 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped. Kernel log daemon terminating. (blah, blah, blah) I don't have an sda in my fstab. Here's what's in it: tom@linux:~> cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda4 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/C auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 I have noticed that my machine is running slower than 8.0 did, although I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Thanks, Tom