Maybe I get a reply back before SuSE 5.3 gets here. Today or Monday I am expecting it. Situation: I am building a totaly new system, most of its built now. System basics: Intel P II 400 / Iwill BD100 Mhz-bus mainboard. Ram: 128Megs PC100 Sdram Video: Xpert@work AGP 8meg OEM / Quantum3D X24Meg (two voodoo2s) Monitor: 17in ViewSonic 17ps Network/Modem: NE2000 Ethernet Card, Hayes Acurra 56K flex external Sound Card: SoundBlaster 64Gold TV/Radio Tuner: Happauge v401 stereo Radio/TV tuner ..now for the catch.. Storage System Devices: IDE: CDROM 24X speed IDE: 6.4Gig Western Digital ..second catch.. SCSI #1 Adapter: FirePort 40-UW With: PlexWriter CDR 12X4 (Ultra scsi) (external) With: Syjet Syquest 1.5Gig removable (Ultra scsi) (external) With: Zip 100 (scsi II) (external) ..third catch.. SCSI #2 Adapter: Adaptec 2940-UW With: IBM 4.5Gig (Ultra Wide Scsi) (internal) ..wow I am done..all of this is in one box.. ..I know most of this set up works already.. The Asking Catch: I have had this system up with one SCSI Host Adapter before and it was with a different CPU and all HardDrives were IDE. Now this new system I am going for broke(boy am I ever) I have put in a UW SCSI HardDrive for use as my Linux Disk. And I have one IDE for winblows(winblows aint worth a scsi hd) Now, I just want to know if this should give me any problems that I should be prepared for. I like to use LILO, and LILO will be on the /mbr of the IDE drive pointing one boot to winblows on the same IDE drive and another to Linux on the SCSI drive.. Should I expect any problems with my plan? Reasons for putting the UW HD on a second SCSI host adapter, is because I have heard that having any other device that is not the same as your fastest device on the SCSI chain will slow it down to that speed. Like I might get rid of the zip on the #1 scsi host adapter, just cause of the CDR. Or put it on, only when needed. And UW is faster than just Ultra devices. I am assuming that this set up will slow Linux boot up/computer boot up, but thats just cause it has to initilize the cards and find whats on it at the given time. 1) LILO will boot from the IDE/mbr to a SCSI Linux native root / (problem?) a) this set up has two SCSI host adapters to figure out.. (problem at boot?) 2) any suggestions? -guess I will find out when 5.3 gets here (soon) ;)- Steve Udell hettar@teleport.com sudell@teleport.com - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e