--- "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote: > BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net> wrote: > > Hi Manuel! > > My IDE set up is as follows: > > IDE channel 0 --- IBM 40GB UDMA 100 7200 RPM drive 2MB > buffer > > --- Segate 120GM UDMA 100 7000 RPM drive 8MB > buffer > > IDE channel 1 --- TDK CD-ROM drive 24X > > --- TDK CD-RW drive 16x burn, 48x read > > Both controller cables are UDMA 100 compatible. > > Ew, old-style PIO master/slave used for ATA DMA (not > recommended). > > Furthermore, you're using your newer devices as slaves, so > they are stuck with the ATA support of their masters. > > Lastly, you're using different vendors for the disks -- IBM > (and WD drives, who OEM'd IBM drives at that time) had > numerous issues with the ATA logic Intel ICH and ViA 82xx > southbridges. > > > > -- > Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail Hi Bryan! I should also mentions that the drives are installed in removabl drive bays so that I can swap then out with other drives without messing with the cables. Thus, I can put in different master boot drives for different operating systems. I have seen very little problems of the nature discribed with FC2, Mandrake 8.1, or Suse 8.2. I have not seen any problems when using Windows 2000 pro. Is this problem occuring more with newer versions of the Red Hat base kernals? It could still be a hardware problem of some sort with the system. When I get home tonight I'll open up the box and re-seat the cables just to be sure that they are ok.