Believe it or not, I knew that was a pipe. They do use that in Windows every now and then! :-P (command line of of course) On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:13:31 -0500, John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> took time to say the following: JM> Note that that's a pipe in there, not an I. Other than that, you'll be fine. JM> dmesg dumps a bunch of boot-time stuff, including hardware detection, and JM> we're grepping for information on sda, which should be your SATA drive. JM> JM> John "I've got some bad news for you sunshine, Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------