> append="idebus=66" Good luck recovering that drive. Lets understand one thing here. The IDE controller resides on the PCI bus. The PCI bus (in affordable hardware) is 33MHz. ATA/66 / ATA/100 / ATA/133 has _NOTHING_ to do with the bus speed of the system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org