sorry about the ridiculous delay. I have spent all day either fdisking, fscking, or otherwise chasing my tail (ever mount '/' with the 'nodev' option after moving paritions around?) I still cannot get the bios, lilo, and linux to agree on the damn geometry of this disk. a such, it is running without dma, with no read buffering, no multicount, nada. in otherwords, like molasses uphill in winter.. I give up. I've done everything I can think of. -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net/ Admin: http://linux.nf/ Brainbench Linux Administration Certified ~~ Now offering Linux admin services for the home user ~~ Earth is full. Go home. _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users