Thank you. I took the CD-Rom out, so that's why it didn't show. Very observant! My concern with disabling the new drivers is as follows: I use this linux kernel and config image to boot machines over PXE and call a shred program on each of the harddrives. If I turn off CONFIG_ATA, will this limit my ability to support various new IDE and SATA drives for running shred? So far, the configuration I have works well with most of the machines I encounter (and with both SATA and IDE drives), except for the Dell D610 and HP 7700 (small desktop pc). The models I just mentioned run the shred really slow, which I believe is due to the DMA problem I was having (outlined in my previous emails). Any thoughts? On 1/11/08, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. You do indeed have both the old IDE and new IDE drivers trying to > drive bits of the system. I don't see the CD-ROM in the dmesg at all > however ? > > If you turn off CONFIG_ATA you should get just old IDE drivers and your > disk back working sanely. > > Alan > -- Kristin Vadas Marsicano kristin.marsicano@xxxxxxxxx kristinisme.blogspot.com - 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