Don Levey wrote: >>> The BIOS does indeed recognise my two SATA hard drives, and I've got the >>> BIOS set to "IDE" (which disables "hardware" RAID but not the SATA but >> you need to set the drives to work at only sata-1 ( 1.5Gb/sec ) mode. > Ah, OK - thanks! I'll try that this afternoon. I'm assuming I don't > need to make a corresponding change on the motherboard itself? no, it should just work fine, you dont even need to set the mobo to emulate ide mode or use ahci, the via_sata drivers included in the kernel work fine. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq