B. Szyszka: > I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am > running into some error messages: > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } That's *usually*¹ a sign that your hard disk is about to die on you. Do a backup, buy a new drive, and copy the stuff over to that one. -- \\// peter ¹ It has been each time I've gotten them.