Hope a guru out there can help with this.... I've been googling, rebooting, reconfiguring, updating BIOS, and am at my wits end. I have a SUSE 9.3 system with the following; MSI K8MM-ILSR Motherboard Onboard VIA chipset with VIA 8237 Bought a brand new Western Digital WD 1600JS 7200RPM 160 GB SATA2 drive to drop into the box thinking that my biggest challenge would be to clone the stuff off the two existing IDE drives. Was I mistaken.... Although the board, the VIA 8237 specifically, supports SATA, what I've learned is that it is 1st generation, not 2nd generation. After much googling, I have; 1) reflashed the BIOS to the latest version and enabled IDE-SATA 2) Set a jumper on the drive that WD calls 'OPT1', which forces it to a 150 mb/second transfer rate instead of autonegotiate, which isn't supported in SATA1 3) Finally gotten Win XP Home (which I left on the system when I bought it, but I never use... sure glad I kept it around <g>) to actually see the new drive, although XP sees it as a SCSI drive.... What I haven't been successful in doing is getting SUSE 9.3 to detect the drive, dmesg shows the following cryptic lines that I believe are related to the problem. sata_via version 1.1 sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): SATA master/slave not supported (0xa2) sata_via: probe of 0000:00:0f.0 failed with error -5 But I haven't had any real luck googling the above. So, does anyone have any ideas on how I might proceed? Since XP sees it as a SCSI drive, is there some Linux trick I have to implement to get the same result? Any ideas welcome! Scott -- Nullus est instar domus POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.14-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)