On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 04:53, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Back to the original problem, could it be that the harddisk model is > on a blacklist inside the kernel? This could be very possible actually. Especially if you can't use hdparm to enable it. What IDE controller do you have? I'm not sure if the blacklisting would appear in dmesg or not, you might check there. -- Shawn <drevil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.warpcore.org/