2009/9/23 Nick <tonestone57@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Only changes required, set SATA to Legacy in the BIOS setup and use Fail >> Safe video mode. >> >> But it's far from perfect: I get random KDLs while reading from the HD. >> I'll make more tests. > > You must have missed the part I said about disabling DMA through safe mode. > > The reason you get KDLs is because you have DMA enabled. DMA works > great with IDE stack but there is an issue with ATA stack. I have an open > ticket about this that you can add to. Interesting. I have DMA enabled but I don't get the KDL issue but I am looking at a some curious failures when reading from the disk while playing media files. What ticket did you raise? > Disable DMA & you'll see Atom330 works great - no KDLs for me. > > Also, we'll have to make due with VESA until someone updates the > intel_extreme driver to newer version ( another ticket I have - #3149 ). -- Cheers David