Hi all, I recently bought an Asus A8N-SLI mobo and an AMD 3500+ CPU for my system but my ide drive seems to have some problems with them. Here is what I get at boot : hda: 156368016 sectors (80060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide: failed opcode was: unknown First I thought it was bad ide cable ( because I wasn't using the one that came with mobo ) so I tried with the brand new cable coming with mobo and same error happened. Also trying to do something like : hdparm -m16 -c -u1 -d1 -Xudma2 /dev/hda results in a cpu exception thrown and a kernel panic after that. Full dmesg log is attached. I appreciate any help/comments. P.S: I tried with kernel 2.6.10 and 2.6.12-rc2 and same problems happen Regards, ismail -- Time is what you make of it