Corey Thanks so much for your help, I finished building the kernel last night and installed it on an office test machine and it seems to be working perfectly. Corey Wright wrote: > BEGIN SYSLOG > Dec 20 13:59:30 host kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > Dec 20 13:59:30 host kernel: ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 > Dec 20 13:59:30 host kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > Dec 20 13:59:30 host kernel: ata1: soft resetting port > Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 > Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: ata1: EH complete > Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) > Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > > END SYSLOG > > sacly :) > i get about two errors (ATA bus error, timeout, device error) a > week, spread evenly between two identical drives in a raid1 array. > Did you give the kernel a try ? my system is working really well. Non of the drives which I was having issues with are giving me any problems since I started using these patch's. Again Thanks Mike