What IDE controller does your motherboard have? (Mine is an Asus A7M266-D (dual-Athlon MP), with an on-board AMD768 (for which DMA apparently doesn't work reliably yet).)
Daniel
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp: Unknown device 3400
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
-Roberto
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