<snip> > Just applie the kernel patches from www.linux-ide.org, this will make > the kernel auto-detect the promise ata100 controller (at least at my > asus a7v mb) <snip> That's great, but it's a little hard to apply the patch if linux isn't installed yet. (obviously once it is installed you can then apply the patch (or build a newer kernel as I have done now) rather than use the lilo.conf method). Please excuse the nested brackets :) Barney