Ok... (brace yourself!) - these are just the hdc entries, there were none for fd0. lsmod gave 'command not found'. hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x51 end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. The last time I saw that, the back of the drive had burnt out. Sorry. MJR