Hello Jeff and others, While 2.6.16.2 runs quite OK on my VIA SP8000 Epia system, 2.6.17 gives (with the same config where possible) a sata problem on bootup, it gives a via_sata timeout(cmd 0xef). (the letters were small to make the stuff not scroll off the TV) Immediately rebooting into 2.6.16.2 gives a nice clean bootup. The drive is a SAMSUNG HD160JJ. Hardware has not changed and the .config for the kernel compile was not modified except for version differences. Did I miss something? Is my hardware starting te get picky about linux kernel version numbers? Or getting defective? Any ideas? Kind regards, Udo - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html