A friend is currently trying to install 10.1 on a new S-ATA drive ha has purchased. The machine has been running 10.1 on an old 30GB IDE drive, but he has upgraded to a 250GB S-ATA drive. He is currently trying to re-install and the partitioning keeps hanging with a 1012 error. The motherboard is a Chaintech VNF3-250 Cocket 754 with an nForce3 chipset. The new hard drive is a Maxtor 250GB S-ATA II plugged into a S-ATA I slot - it should drop back to S-ATA 1 compatibility... He only currently has the 64-bit 10.1 DVD, although he does have the 10.0 retail DVD. I've suggested he now try and install the 32-bit 10.0 to see if it is a 64-bit driver issue, but I'm pretty stumped, with my Promise S-ATA controller 2 years ago with SUSE 9.1, or whatever it was at the time, I just popped the DVD into the drive and Bob's your Uncle... I did some Googling, but couldn't find anything specifc to the nForce3 and S-ATA causing problems under Linux. -- David Wright "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck