>> i use WD Caviar Green model WD20EARS (2TB SATA II) without any problems. I
> >> installed from erik's 9atom.iso > > > Did you toggle any jumpers on the drive? I finally gave up and returned > it. > > No. No jumpers at all are inserted. It worked just out-of-the-box. I had first to switch to "Treat SATA as AHCI" in BIOS...then I installed from 9atom.iso (not the newest version, however). I still have a huge amount of data on an ext2 formatted HD, because ext2srv had problems with too many files/subdirs. I think I will have to write a tar from linux to (another, unformatted HD) and then untar to fossil... is it an absolutely crazy idea?