On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With your experience with storage drivers I think you might be good at > fixing some of the problems with the ATA driver. Though I suppose it > is more an issue of chipsets than hard drives. If someone can come up with a motherboard that contains one of the offending chipsets, and send it to me, I can build a working computer around it. I also have a near-infinite supply of mostly old but still working PCs, because my landlord runs an e-Waste recycling center. The machine I just got working though is SATA; I don't think it has an IDE port at all. Do the ATA problems only occur with parallel IDE, or also with SATA? Mike -- Michael David Crawford mdcrawford at gmail dot com GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks http://www.goingware.com/tips/