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What drives have you got connected to your Promise ? On the Mandrake forum they seem to be saying that certain drives (esp. probably Maxtor) are causing the problem with Promise Ultra-100s (and Ultra-66s as in my case). My mobo is an FIC VA-503+ with an AMD K6/2-500 and 384Mb RAM I have the following devices on the on-board IDE controller: Primary master: Maxtor 91741U4 - 17Gb Primary slave: IBM-DHEA-38451 - 8Gb Secondary master: Artec 40X CD-ROM Secondary slave: OnStream DI-30 tape drive I have the following drives on my Promise Ultra 66 Primary master: IBM DTLA-305040 - 40Gb Primary slave: Seagate ST360020A - 60Gb Secondary master: IBM-DTLA-307030 - 30Gb Secondard slave: Maxtor 4G120J6 - 120Gb I hasten to add everything works perfectly on SuSE 7.2 using kernel 2.4.16-4GB. I haven't got 8.0 (I only buy the point 1 or point 2 releases). It is almost certainly a kernel issue. There hasn't been a new BIOS for the Ultra-66 for a very long time and I doubt there will ever be. My work also has a SuSE 7.2 machine with a Promise Ultra-100 card and it also works perfectly. So, any chance of a fixed kernel SuSE ? Sean Akers. ----- Sean Akers: sean@akers-online.co.uk Martin Berg <martin@berg.dk> 07/10/2002 18:30 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com cc: Subject: Re: [SLE] Install hangs with SuSE 8.1 when using a Promise Ultra100 controller The Promise controller works perfectly when on SuSE 8.0 (the current system) and this is with both the original controller bios a the newly updated. Martin Berg