Ever since I upgraded to SuSE 10.1 I've had an intermittant problem with the CD/DVD player on my work computer. Putting a regular CD (either manufactured or self burned) into the CD player and trying to copy a file/folder onto my hard drive sometimes results in two things. (The determinant seems to be file size, very small files I can copy, anything over about 2 meg and it happens) 1. The file copy indicator shows the copy speed slowing down and eventually it says stalled and the drive light goes off. 2. The entire system freezes. Mouse ceases to work. Cntl-Alt-Del has no effect. Keyboard is unresponsive. The only way to get it back is to press the reset and let the system reboot. In YAST: When I check the ide parameters the current dma mode for the cd is off. If I attempt to reset the DMA for the CDROM to UltraDMA33 I get an error message of: "An error occured while activating the changes. Cannot set required mode '%1' for device '%2'." At a terminal as root, It seems as if I can manually reset the parameter with: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc however this does not last to the next reboot. ideas on how to make this behavior cease? -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss Professor of Marketing University of Arkansas Monticello http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu