Jason Pepas said: > > anyone else experience this? any idea why this is happening? buggy IDE chipset, get a better IDE controller, I reccomend Promise PCI ATA/100 or ATA/66 cards (never tried any of their other ones) based on the PDC20267 chip. I had that problem on VIA chipsets about 3-4 years ago, stopped using the IDE on those things ever since, never had a problem since I switched to promise. nate