Can someone please tell what this means and what I have set incorrectly? L-M 8.0, as did other release since 7.0, sets up my Zip Drive as an ide-floppy. I don't use it often but now when I try to access, either from KDE GUI or a command line my system freezes, sometimes for a long time, sometimes it forces a reset button restart. The error message repeats many, many times ide-floppy: hdb I/O error pc = 28, key = 5, asc = 2, ascq = 0 I looks, to me, that Linux(?) has lost the IRQ for the Zip drive and it freezes while it is searching for the Zip Drive? -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ADB0