I don't know whether this is a Suse specific question, but it is Suse related because I am running Suse Linux. I had a CD-R drive that was connected to a Mac and I wanted to connect it to my PC running Suse Linux. Right so I had to buy a SCSI adpater. I bought a cheap ATTO and adapter cable to conenct the wide ATTO to the narrow CD-R. To get this to work I had to set the termination on the board so the upper bits would terminate and the lower ones would be terminated by the device. However, couldn't get into the boards Setup utility. I got the message: No Setup Utility Available, Please Flash BIOS. Back at the store where I got the card, it worked. After several more goes, I downgraded to a older ISA Adaptec AHA 1510. I recompiled to kernel and it works! Great I've got the CD-R up and running cdrecord works like a dream. However, now the floppy doesn't work. I can no longer boot off the floppy. What's more, if I mount the floppy one of three things will happen. 1) The mount point /floppy/ becomes an executable /floppy, 2) Linux says "Wrong fs, two many mounted filesystems... etc". 3)The floppy mounts but the file names and data are corrupted. These are on floppies which I know worked, because they mounted fine on a Linux laptop and on a Mac. This happens whatever filesystem is on the floppy, whether msdos, ext2 or hfs (I have hfs support compiled into the kernel). The problem gets worse the longer the computer is on. Weirdly I can mount floppies first thing in the morning, after a couple of hours, I can't. If I take the SCSI board out the floppy works better, but not perfectly. Sometimes, perfectly good disks are rejected. Does this sound as if the motherboard is fried, especially together with the ATTO problem? It is a Pcchips M571 Socket 7 board with SiS IDE controllers, graphics and CMI8330 sound. Another odd thing is that there is one 32MB SIMM, but the manual which came with the board says that these should come in pairs. I've emailed ATTO about the earlier problems and the only solution that we came up with was some incompatibility between the ATTO board and this motherboard. The ATTO board checks out fine. If the motherboard is fried, any recommendations for something that is reliable and sturdy, for a machine that does lots of web browsing, quite a bit of compiling, lots of word processing, and lots of LaTeX work? Thanks Paul ------------------ Paul Talacko http://members.tripod.com/ptalacko/index.html -- 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/Doku/FAQ/