Hi Jeff, I have a desktop PC with a SATA harddisk and a slackware 13.1 x86_64. In the last days I have seen a lot of problem on my console. Now I don't have the exact messages, but I saw ACC=0x11, ASCQ=0x05 ...... ....please be patiente reset ... I think it is not related to a bad hardware. I have tried an harddisk check program under DOS and it seems OK. On windows I don't have problems, or maybe there are no messages visible. I have tried the last kernel but I think I see more messages of errors. It seems better with older kernel, for exampel 2.6.21, the one with slackware 12. I have tried to enable only the old IDE subsystem, but my controller is not supported. I need the new SATA subsystem. This is my controller: { 0x8086, 0x27c0, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, ich6_sata }, Can you give me an advice ? I can give you all details you want. Thanks for your time Paolo Minazzi -- 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