Hi fx, After much reading and downloading your friend's MotherBoard PDF Manual at: ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/manual/english/be6-IIe.pdf I've arrived to the next: [CONCLUSIONS] 1- If you do not change parameters on the Award Bios, you won't get any results. 2- Linux sees the 4 IDE ports sequentially. 3- The only chance is to disable IDE1 and IDE2 while maintaining enabled IDE3 and IDE4. 4- First you must connect your ATAPI CD-ROM as Master to IDE4, and try it this way from windoze, without disabling any. If it does work (but not advised by Abit on the manual) then you can go and change Bios params. [IMPORTANT TIP] You need to get your [IBM UDMA 13gb] disk as _hda_ connecting it as _master_ to the IDE3 Ultra DMA/66 controller with your special cable. Also your ATAPI CD-ROM as Master to IDE4. [PROCEDURE] 1- Activate the Award CMOS Setup Utility pressing the _del_ key upon power- up 2- Select "Integrated Peripherals" Menu. 3- Disable both "Onboard IDE-1 Controller" and "Onboard IDE-2 Controller". 4- Mantain _enabled_ the "Ultra DMA-66 IDE Controller" 5- Maintain _enabled_ the "IDE HDD Block Mode" 6- Go to the "Standard CMOS Features" Setup Menu 7- Select "None" on your "IDE Primary Master / Slave" and "IDE Secondary Master / Slave". 8- Select "Press Enter" on your "IDE Primary Master" to gain access to the "IDE HDD Auto-Detection" section and press enter to do it on the sub- menu that appears. It will auto configure the IBM UDMA disk. 9- from the Boot Device selections you have the sequence: Floppy -> LS/ZIP -> HDD-0 -> SCSI -> CDROM -> HDD-1 -> HDD-2 -> HDD-3 -> LAN -> UDMA66. Choose the ones you need. 10- Save Bios params, exit and reboot your windoze. If all this works, you will get the same config on your windoze, with the added benefit of your high speed IBM UDMA full performance maintained. Also you will shot on the target center, obtaining _hda_ as you need. Pity that Award's Bios do not provide for changing selection order on IDE Controllers. [INFO] Abit mentions a party Linux center with full motherboards support, as they say at: http://www.gentus.com [IMPORTANT] Do not forget to annotate first all Bios params as you see them, and then and not first proceed to do changes. But as of today it seems to be down from my site, try and check it if you wish. - Who does what it can, can't be forced to do more -. =8`) -- HTH Best regards, Eduardo Carriles [-- Better a smile than a flame --] (Long time SuSE-Linux [preferred distro] user). [-- Se me nota mucho? -- Notices me much?] [-- Have a lot of fun...] -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq