This did not change the responsiveness at all for me. After reading more in the usenet archives I think it may be related to the VIA 686B southbridge problem as this is on a Abit KT7A-Raid board. Is this still a problem even with the newer kernels? Matt Whiteley On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 19:26, Dax Kelson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 20:10, Matt Whiteley wrote: > > I assume I have something configured wrong and > > would appreciate a nudge in the right direction. > > Add the line: > > options ide-cd dma=1 > > To your /etc/modules.conf file. > > Dax Kelson > Guru Labs > > >