I have one last question before I dive back in to this this weekend. If the SCSI support is compiled in rather than modules, does that change the need for the lilo.conf directive that Janina is referring to? There is nothing at all regarding SCSI in my lilo.conf. My understanding of modules versus compiled is that it is all supposed to function the same when up and running. The only difference is that your kernel grows or shrinks by loading and unloading portions of code as needed rather than just having them sitting there unused part of the time. Martin Janina Sajka writes: >I have it as modules, and I have had no dificulty with it since at least >2.2.12. I have it on my IBM Thinkpad T20, where I have a swappable ide >burner.