Ok, this is starting to make a bit nervous... I just had SuSE8.1 take a major dive on me... got me a little concerned since this is the second time this has happened. Both times it has crashed I was writing to a floppy. This time I was in the process of manually creating a GRUB boot rescue floppy (I have loaned out my SuSE8.1 master disks to a friend who wants to give Linux a try so I cannot use YaST to do it all the easy way, and my second computer had to have Win98 re-installed...thus the need for a GRUB boot floppy to get back into Linux on that machine). I popped a new floppy into the drive and typed: fdformat /dev/fd0 Which worked as expected... then I typed: mke2fs /dev/fd0 A couple of clicks on the floppy drive and poof, the whole system comes to a screaming halt. Monitor goes black, the HD light is on steady, and no response to keyboard, or the hard reset button. I had to pull the power cable to restart the machine. The first time this happened, I was reading a file from the floppy drive and same exact results... a system crash. I checked my messages log and found this: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 10 20:46:28 linux kernel: floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 3, size 2 Dec 10 20:46:28 linux kernel: floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 3, size 2 Dec 10 20:46:28 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 38 ----------------------------------------------------------------- So... the question in my mind is... my would I get such a major failure over a CRC error on a floppy? I can't find anything else in the logs that would indicate any other problem... any suggestions here? C.