Switched everything out, xpt the drive, got the latest kernel release for that system, /opt and the entire first hard drive are gone, or at least fdisk, fsck and nothing else see's it. I get I/O errors any time I try to cd /opt. Can't mount /opt fails it can't find that partion mount -l shows all the partitions on had, hdb is working fine even so it seems that like what started it all.
I'll slap SuSE on it tom. I was just more curious as to what happened then anything (this being the second time). The longer I use linux the more things I encounter that make me feel like a complete newbie. I think I've devoted too much time to network services and constantly fighting with sendmail, and CFMX. I need to get back to the ummm root of things. Flo