Newer motherboards have a combination of IDE and SATA channels. My ASUS P5GD1 has 4 SATA channels and 2 IDE channels not counting "RAID controllers". As I write this Windows is formatting a fifth hard drive. The system has a DVD and 250G on the IDE controller, plus 4 SATA drives. I have to set the BIOS disk array to "enhanced" or "native" mode to do this. Otherwise the number of drives is limited. Windows works with this configuration, but FC5 does strange things, both the 386 and the x86_64 flavors. Apparently Fedora has not been tested on a motherboard using a mixture of IDE and SATA deviced in native/enhanced mode. It would be nice to have Linux handle machines with many drives in IDE/SATA mixes as well as Windows does. -- 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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list