Hi Paul, thanks for your reply. But I'm still in trouble. :-( Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > You'll need the following files on the driver disk: > > modinfo > modules.cgz > modules.dep > modules.pcimap > pcitable > rhdd > Write that lot to a VFAT format floppy and you're done. I tried. The first thing was that sata_sis.ko didn't load because there was no libata. The only way around it was to add the libata to the modules.dep and also to the modules.cgz since I don't know how to address the libata that comes with the installation DVD in the modules.dep. The current status is that I can read my driver disk, but then if sata_sis is loaded I get this Ooops & kernel panic: Oops: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: sata_sis(U) libata(U) ohci_hcd ehci_hcd sr_mod sd_mod scsi_mod pcspkr edd floppy loop nfs lockd sunrpc vfat fat cramfs CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010093 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) EIP is at _stext+0x3feffdc0/0x20 eax: dfaa9260 ebx: dfaa9260 ecx: c0415fb8 edx: f88db760 esi: dfa3e300 edi: dfa3e300 ebp: 00000000 esp: c044afa8 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c044a000 task=c03b7ca0) Stack: f88bc84f 00000000 00000286 dfaa971c 00000000 dfa6f9e0 00000000 c0415fb8 00000000 c014d9b3 00000005 c0413d00 dfa6f9e0 00000005 c044aff8 c014da9c c0415fb8 c0415fa8 c0415fb8 00000005 004bb007 c0105a81 Call Trace: [<f88bc84f>] ata_interrupt+0x14f/0x200 [libata] [<c014d9b3>] handle_IRQ_event+0x33/0x60 [<c014da9c>] __do_IRQ+0xbc/0x2e0 [<c0105a81>] do_IRQ+0x51/0x90 and so on. I just wonder what's wrong with it. :-/ Anyway, thanks for your help, even if it didn't help me in this case. Regards Rainer -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Business Clients Fujitsu Siemens Computers VP BC E SW OS Phone: +49-821-804-3321 Fax: +49-821-804-2131