Wizzards and wunderkinde and anyone else w/ some real knowledge , short setup: Still having some problems w/ the Plywel "purose built" computer .. which began life running NT4 ( bleah!) and recently , because of some really odd behaviour, they had me send the box back for a retrofit .. well a rebuild , really .. replaced Mboard, scsi card athlon chip, ram and, even the power supply, they also replaced ( twice!) the hard drive .... and , because The bigger Bosses present , they understood it wasn't NT but Linux it was going to be used for. Sometimes it does help to rant a bit .... Anyway , they send it back adn it still wont boot, so it maeks anotehr trip to the left coast and this time, they make certai it will boot by loading linux on it !! ( small moral victories help moralle <G>) The a few weeks later, the floppy drive lost it's tiny mind... couldn't open it, couldn't even tell if there were a disk in it! Sooooo, we call and complain.. and they decide to ship a drive here to have one of their local guys install once it arrives.. it gets here, dn the installer does his thing ... teh computer being off all this time... he leaves, Gil ( spouse) decides to check to see if the thing actually works, he boots the box, and suddenly ... problems ..... the desktop took more thn 15 minutes too hsow up, and when it did , nothing worked as it had before. He'd noted that the xconsole message kept repeating that there were errors that he hadn't seen before... back to the Polywell folks. They had a guy "walk him thru the connections of all the drives etc.. and decided that most likely Linux was at fault, esp as it doesn't have a "Go BAck" feature !!! ( okay, stoi laughing now <G>) one of the things that turns up in the dmesg that bothers ME is: I/O error: dev 08:03, sector 390272 vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [84619 84627 0x0 SD] scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x28 00 00 1a ca 95 00 00 08 00 Info fld=0x1aca97, Current sd08:03: sns = f0 3 ASC=11 ASCQ= 0 That's all new stuff since the floppy drive replacement.. and it repeats ad infinitem : can anyone provide me w/ a translation ?? what do I need to do to fixor it? OR is it one of those things I can safely ignore? ANd if I can ig that... how do I fixor my long loading slooooooow building desktop? w/o reinstall , which seems to be a rediculious suggestion , esp when they suggest I load XP !! I know there are a number of strange "statements" in the dmesg that are arcane stuff left over fro various programmers ... apparently... ( I don't speak program so I've no clue <G> ) Feel free anyone to send a private message to me and I'll send you the entire file .. tho why you'd want 9 pages of repeated data I don't know.... We aim to please tho.. <smile> j afterthought Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.