On Thursday 16 February 2006 18:36, Paul wrote: > > > Currently, it's got an ASRock "M810LMR" motherboard in it. > > http://www.ciao.co.uk/ASRock_M810LMR__5410842 > > Looks like this board is based on a early socket A VIA chipset ... > generally I would avoid these. My past experience with older VIA > chipsets has been less than good ... I've had issues with buggy IDE > implementations in KT266 & KT133A and having to run them in PIO mode > rather than DMA mode (SLOW). My conclusion, as well. (and yes, it runs in PIO mode, and it's slow, and I don't care since this system isn't a high-load system) > I would use a cheap PCI IDE card and see what happens. It's a 1U system. PCI cards are pretty much out of the question. (sigh) -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978