Apologies guys, I know this is the wrong list, but am unsure which list to use. I only subscribe at present to SUSE Security. Please point me in the right area. I am generating the following errors .. hdb: dma_init: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} hdb: dma_init: error=0x84 {DriveStatusError BadCRC} ide: failed opcode was : unknown I get about 7 or 8 of these when transfering sustained data from the linux machine to a Windows machine using SAMBA. After these errors the linux machine freezes completely forcing a hard RESET to clear it. I have two physical hard drives hda, hdb (both 120MB Western Digital drives) configured using LVM. The LVM contains my \home directories, which contain the files I am trying to transfer. The system has run for over a year without problems. I have run the DOS based WD diagnostics on the drive and it reports no errors. Any thing you can suggest. Philip