Hi, I installed the new kernel package for 2.2.19 on my SuSE 6.4 following each step in the announcement. After rebooting it hangs during the ide detection. I have two hard disks at ide0, a CD-ROM and a tape drive at ide1. Usually, I get the following messages at boot: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: FUJITSU MPF3204AT, ATA DISK drive hdb: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive hdc: E5SA CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: CONNER CTT8000-A, ATAPI TAPE drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: FUJITSU MPF3204AT, 19546MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63 hdb: IBM-DTTA-351010, 9671MB w/466kB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63 hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: get_inquiry_results: CONNER CTT8000-A rev 2.08 ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 5850kB pipeline, 80ms tDSC Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M ... With the new 2.2.19 kernel it stops here (note the new messages,although the E-IDE driver claims to be the same revision): Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx // new line VP_IDE VIA vt82 c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller von pci00:07.1 // new line ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: FUJITSU MPF3204AT, ATA DISK drive hdb: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive hdc: E5SA CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: CONNER CTT8000-A, ATAPI TAPE drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: FUJITSU MPF3204AT, 19546MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63, UDMA(66) // the UDMA is new hdb: IBM-DTTA-351010, 9671MB w/466kB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA(33) // the UDMA is new And here it hangs for at least 5 minutes (I rebooted then). On a second host with only one hard disk at ide0 and only a CD-ROM at ide1, the new kernel boots without problems. Any hints what I could do? I would like to keep the tape drive... Best regards, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:fst@informatik.uni-kiel.de Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:fsteiner@web.de CAU Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613 D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/