With some mobos, the Promise card will appear after the onboard IDE controller. AFAIK, if you set your BIOS to boot from SCSI it will take the Promise controller first (the Promise will appear to some BIOSs as a SCSI card even though it is IDE). My machine seems to take the Promise in preference to my mobo IDE so I haven't had to do this. Hope this helps. Sean. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 31/08/2000 at 16:08 S. Smith wrote: I'm trying to install SuSE on a new computer that has 2 ide hard drives and 1 Promise Ultra66 drive. The thing that I am trying to accomplish is having the ultra66 drive be /dev/hda. Currently it is /dev/hde. With the ide cables, I can physicallyange the order the block devices are assigned. Is there a way to set the kernel to change the device order on boot-up? -- 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