Lawrence Houston wrote: > and therefore may NOT be good long term solution... FC5 does NOT appear > to respond to the boot-time parameter "nocddma" and previously HDPARM > included a SYSV INIT Script allowing DMA control over individual devices > (which appears to have been dropped)... Does FC5 provide another > mechanism for controlling the DMA Settings on individual Devices??? You can always add an hdparm command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx ========================================================================