->> I know, it's really weird. The motherboard/chipset actually puts the > SATA drive on the primary master channel (hda). I think that's what's > screwing me up. I'd have to remove it if I wanted to put some other > device on primary master, since I can't move it to another channel or to > a normal standalone SATA channel. Not necessarily. There is a kernel config option (at build time) that says something like 'Boot offboard chipsets first'. This option tells the kernel that drive controllers not in the normal chipset get first option to boot. If the system finds them (like SATA) then SATA could become hda. However I would have then assumed the normal hda EIDE drive would become hdc.<- >From the mobo manual: *Important Notice on Using IDE Drives and a Serial ATA Drive* Serial ATA uses the primary IDE's master channel. Therefore, if a serial ATA drive is connected to the serial ATA connector, DO NOT connect an IDE device to IDE-P's Master channel. IDE drives can be connected to the primary slave, secondary master, and secondary slave channels. This says to me it's hardwired into the mobo, but I could be wrong. ->> Maybe the 2.6 kernel would work with it better, but I'm hesitant to put > it on there right now, since this is my only computer. What distro are you running? I would think that an nforce-2 would be much better with a 2.6 kernel. I run 2.6.8.1 and things work well for me on my Gentoo boxes. On my Planet box I'm still pretty far back with an older 2.4 kernel, but that's very old Pentium 2 or 3 hardware IIRC. One of those big, box-like processors that look like a piece of bread sticking up from the MB...<- Planet ccrma 2.4.26 kernel, RH9. Worked the same way in the out-of-the-box RH9 kernel, too. Matt
