Hi there, 2 questions about IDE: 1.: with my machine: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5 SIS5513: chipset revision 0 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 > cdrom: : unknown mrw mode page ^ no cdi->name? is this for the hda device or hdc? hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 2.: with another machine: I have a disk that has some bad sectors (that says the drive fitness test from ibm). and I think one of the sectors is where the partition table is. on kernel boot the kernel stops when it tries to detect the partitions and gives some "dma timeout"s. can I disable the partition table probe? is the "hdx=noprobe" argument the right one? Regards, Martin ps.: sorry for my bad english -- MyExcuse: halon system went off and killed the operators. Martin Zwickel Research & Development TechnoTrend AG