dmesg is reporting ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/10 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/14/00 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound } My HD disk is on /dev/sda1 so I presume this is errors from the CDROM. Is there a command I can use to not do anything with the CDROM? It was just there for install. This is an older machine running 4.4 i686 . Its also remote so I just can't unplug the CDROM. If there is a command to tell the kernel to ignore the CDROM that would be great. Thanks, jerry