Try booting with: nolapic That largely fixed my problems on my motherboard (2.6.18+, EPoX MF-570SLI). I hope to try 2.6.25+ soon. -- Jon -- 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