Hi, all -- And another late post... ...and then Richard Atcheson said... % % On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:47 pm, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote: % > What is the most common short list of reasons, please, that % > moving a HDD from an older K2 box to a new Athlon box might % > cause SuSE/KDE to fail to boot properly when it had been % > working fine? % % For a long time making a Maxtor play nice with another brand was real % problematic. Seems like Maxtor only liked being hooked up with Maxtor. I've happily mixed Maxtor, Quantum, Seagate, and Western Digital for years. Of course, I never tried to use each vendor's drive setup software, which could have been a part of it. A current example: root@canal:/root # uname -a Linux canal 2.4.20 #8 SMP Sat Apr 12 12:32:39 EDT 2003 i686 unknown root@canal:/root # dmesg | grep hd ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive hdc: WDC WD1600JB-00FUA0, ATA DISK drive hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=254097/15/63, UDMA(33) hdc: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33) hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 > hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 > HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G davidtg@justpickone.org http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!