On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Andrey Andreev wrote: > I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much > rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module > tainting my kernel. if you have a motherboard that used the nvidia chipset for ide, than too late .... you have no choice if you want [u]dma mode otherwise, you're stuck in ata-33 mode w/o dma even if your disk is superfast 15K rpm ata-133 disks c ya alvin