Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net> wrote: > But I do have a master drive on that channel. Like I > mentioned before, there are two hard disks in /dev/hd{a,c}, > and the CD-ROM is / dev/hdb (like I suspected). That's never a good idea -- both performance and stability-wise. When you have a DMA ATA device, put it on its own channel. The master/slave design was for old EIDE using PIO ATA. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does ***