<snippety> Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: ne io=0x300 Is this OK (it seems to have worked), or have I planted a timebomb? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/