Hi Marcus, Marcus Overhagen wrote (2007-07-25, 14:01:16 [+0200]): > > the SATA drive is connected. With another SATA drive and no PATA drive, > > I can barely use ZETA, because the DMA timeouts get really bad. I can > > boot > I'm not using zeta. I would prefer not to too, since it is less reliable than my trusty R5, but that doesn't boot at all on the new hardware. > > fine, but Haiku doesn't boot because BFS produces a read-error during > > boot, so that it doesn't even find the boot partition... I think my > > chipset or rather the BIOS is really bad :-\ > What system do you use? It's a Gigabyte 965G-DS3 "Ultra Durable S-Series". Using a "lowly" Core 2 Duo. I don't know what it uses for a SATA chipset. Best regards, -Stephan