:Couldn't find this kind of option in my laptop's bios. : :Best Regards, :sephe
It may not be a big deal anyway since both ATA and NATA recognized the drive as UDMA100, but if changing the DMA mode solves the problem then we know the issue is in the dma timings array. It may also be possible to set the DMA mode with 'natacontrol' if you can manage to boot into single user mode. e.g.: natacontrol cap ad0 natacontrol mode ad0 natacontrol mode ad0 udma2 -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>