Hi, I am going to do a last ressort attempt. I am going to switch cables with a set of harddrives that are working properly and see if that works. I changed cables allready, but with my luck the cables I changed them for are faulty. Jumpers and all look ok, I changed the jumpers, on advice from Greg and this didnt solve the problem. Eric's comment about master slave collision made me think about a probable cable problem, which I am going to test now. Stays weird that the legacy ide drivers do find the drives tho. I will let you know. Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list: 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