On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 02:04 PM, RJ Auburn wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* As anyone seen "IOATAController device blocking bus" in the system.log? I did a google on the message but can not find any references to this anyware. I started getting this error message on two different laptops after upgrading it 10.3.2. When I get these messages the hard drive is making a nasty clicking sound and all disk IO is blocked. Doing a clean install makes the problem go way for a while but it does come back after a few weeks. I don't know how my experience relates to yours, but: I have seen this several times, on a 500Mhz Firewire/USB G3 laptop, while trying to mount a CD. In each case, I fixed it expeditiously :-} by waiting until the dust settled, opening the CD tray, and closing it again. The nasty clicking sound, in my case, seemed to be CD-related. Regards, Justin -- /~\ The ASCII Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-at-Large \ / Ribbon Campaign X Help cure HTML Email / \ _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.