Not true for this machine, which is rarely used. Rebootted yesterday. >> When I do a dmesg I see only 163 of these: >> >> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) >> >> What's up with this? This workstation is hardly used. > >163 CDs have been placed in the CD-ROM since the machine was booted. (Or 1 >CD 163 times, etc.)