Hi: Every time I log in my kde session using gdm I get this message in tty10 (syslogd): Feb 7 12:17:17 gato kernel: hda: lost interrupt I have tried lots of combinations to configure my hard drive in the BIOS (enabling and disabling S.M.A.R.T., etc.) and with hdparm, but I still get that. And it cant be cause when benchmarking with hdparm I get could times, plus the disk aint old and has always worked fine.. It is a Maxtor 2B020H1. Another question, the other day I had a problem with corrupted minor numbers with tty[3-6] so I booted with a floppy and blew away my /dev directory and then I rebuild it using MAKEDEV (from another machine) by hand.. I obviously left out some devices... now my question is, besides the block devices (/dev/hd[a-z]) do harddrives need anything else from /dev?? Thanks!! Raul