Hi, I have an ASUS K8V SE Deluxe MB, and I attached an 80GB Samsung IDE Disk via an IDE-USB-Adapator at the front usb connector. Problem: Partitioning the DISK by cfdisk is OK (1 primary, spanning over the whole disk). But formatting with etx2/ext3 or xfs hangs up, after about one 3rd of the disk is formatted (mkfs.ext2/3/xfs). mkfs.vfat is OK. Kernel: 2.6.10 (Vanilla). Any help is appreciated. -- Regards Joachim Backes Joachim Backes <backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html