Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > The disk is writing synchronously. How can I change that to async? > With IDE drives I have hdpam, but with SCSI? Why would you want async? Syncronous Data Transfer (AKA SDTR) is the "performance" option. Anyway, you might start here: http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html FYI, this link comes from the parisc-linux FAQ. grant