So is it time to switch to the ata busmanager yet? Might be good to switch it and see what systems still have issues. Or are we waiting for something else to be in place first between this is turned on? http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/R1/Alpha1Proposals#Prop12:ATAvs.IDEbusmanager Note that when I posted ticket #1444 I wasn't able to boot my Gateway laptop using the ide driver, but it works with the ata one. Well now it works with either one in place, so the original problem stated in #1444 no longer exisits. -scottmc