Raymond Lillard <rlillard <at> sonic.net> writes: > Does your T43 use a PATA or SATA hard drive? > > If PATA, can you disable the SATA interface in the BIOS? It's a PATA drive, but unfortunately there's no option (that I've found) to disable the SATA interface in the BIOS. > > SATA drive (a proposed patch for this was recently posted on fa.linux.kernel) > > I looked for it on Google and found discission of patches > but none which seemed to address my specific issue. You > didn't happen to save the message or the patch did you? Apologies if I got your hopes up, the patch was for the SATA suspend/resume issue, rather than the DVD drive DMA. It can be found in the following thread -- groups.google.co.uk/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/2c87315d6ce17273 Regards, Jon.