** Reply to message from Carl Hartung
You can download (may have on CD already?) diagnostic utilities from your drive manufacturer that can query and test the drive. Of course, the easiest thing to do is replace the entire drive and reinstall... I would. I think that drive is about to *fail*.
I've gotta run now. So, I'll catch up with you on this later today or this evening.
Good luck!
If you noticed, I referenced hda5 and hdb6. The 2 installs are on partitions on separate hard disks, both of which are practically new WD 80Gb disks. I tend to lay this on something software-related, or kernel-related, because they are so new. Until I installed SuSE 10 fresh on hdb6, the only thing in regular use on that drive was a 1.6 Gb swap partition. By the way, I am booted into hda5 at present and the messages to console 10 have returned to 2 every 29 or 30 seconds. Ed Harrison, Registered Linux User #199533 SuSE 10.0, Kernel 2.6.15 PolarBar Mailer 1.26