Todd Simi wrote: > I have a few items that either don't work at all, or don't work out of > the box. > > Doesn't work at all (as far as I've been able to do anything about; > > ahci on my 2 SATA drives > > Doesn't work out of the box; > > DVD+rw drive & DVD-ROM drive > I have to set the kernel options irqpoll noapic > I get the drive confused message, and integrity of writes is very bad > > My motherboard is an ASUS P5W DH > > > As much as I hate Windoze, it works without intervention on the DVD's, > I haven't tested the ahci. > > Any ideas? You have installed the latest updates, haven't you? There's been a lot changing in this area since FC5 came out. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Banana in disk drive error aprilcottage.co.uk |