Not too long ago I added a 250 G SATA drive to my office computer, a P4 on an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe. By changing the drive order in the BIOS I can boot either the new regime or the tired old copy of XP. Mandrake installed and ran without problems, correctly identifying which drive to put the boot loader on and correctly setting the 1920x1200 resolution for the display. FC4T3 did not do as well. The first attempt wiped out a partition or two, and the boot loader was installed somewhere where it didn't do anything. Second time I restored the lost partitions and used the advanced boot loader option to put the loader on the MBR of the SATA drive. There were copious complaints about an invalid partition table but I was able to dismiss them and proceed. The obvious problem now is the display. I selected 1920x1200 but the screen display is squeezed horizontally. At lease Fedora Core did not scramble the drive parameters. Perhaps SATA drives are immune to this. -- Chuck Forsberg caf@xxxxxxxx www.omen.com 503-614-0430 Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software" 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665