Hi all! I am experiencing a very weird problem with my eide stuff. I have a computer with one small (6.4G) hard drive, and one large (80G) drive not reconized by the BIOS. That's fine with Linux because I let the kernel reconize the drive. Then I had a cd-rom and a cd-rw on the secondary controller. Everything worked fine. Unfortunately, I got a newer cd-rom drive. I plugged it: bios started to hang and the eide controller light was always red..... After some reboots, I have found that my computer can boot if: 1) I press control+alt+del (so, instead of rebooting, it gets into the bios). 2) I try to make my eide autodetect. 3) I stop it with another control+alt+del (it cannot reconize my large hard drive). It reboots my computer. 4) it works fine, then. But with no cd-rom or cd-rw. I have tryed everything from the bios, with no result. Do you think that getting an EIDE controller could solve my problem? Praise