Sorry, for repeating this question - but I need to give it one more chance to get solved before I throw those SATA disks out. Sometimes (usually not that often) when accessing my SATA disks I get this: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt This timeout occurs after some 15 seconds of halted activity on the drive. I have had this problem since day 1. I have lived in hope that kerenl updates would catch this problem but now I am on 2.6.3 and the problem is still there. Can anyone give me a hint on what might be causing this? I mean, could it be hardware failure (cables?), lousy chipset (VIA VT8237), configuration errors, kernel bugs etc.? thanks for listening. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com