speaking of 2.2.19 w/ mandrake 8.0 I tried to use 2.2.19 with a k6-2 350 with VIA chipset and it stops booting after probing the devices on the ide bus... ... Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596a (rev 06) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: Maxtor 91303D6, ATA DISK drive hdc: ST39140A, ATA DISK drive hdd: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CDROM drive then nothing more...