Hello, hope I'm in the right list... I've a Asus P2B-DS with 2 PIII and an on-board aic7xxx SCSI controller chip. I use KDE and k3b for burning CDs and DVDs... the distribution I use is an up-to-date Fedora Core 4. Starting k3b on a 2.6.15 kernel it starts to search for CD devices and than I get some kernel-smp-aipc and so on messages in my console, load increases to 20 and 30 and than - kernel panic! The same is with any kernel I tried starting from 2.6.13... I used other distribs like Knoppix and Kanotix too... it was the same with kernels greater than 2.6.12. If I boot my system with a 2.6.12 kernel (the remaining software the same) k3b works without any kind of trouble... So I'm quite lost at the moment - it seems to be a problem with the newer 2.6 kernels and aic7xxx... Does anybody in this list might have a glue of what's going on and how to patch it? Thanks a lot in advance, cheers, Andreas - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html