Glen Larkins writes: > Corrected. With only 1 of the 500g drives connected, I can boot fine. > With all drives connected, I suddenly began getting COMRESET failed > (errno=-16) and hearing physical noises from the two 80g drives > connected to the motherboard sata. This has never occurred. This report, and the fact that you wrote that things worked until you added 4 drives on a second controller, makes me suspect that the PSU simply cannot cope with the load. - 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