For what it's worth, I had a hell of a time with SATA & PATA drives
in my ASUS Pundit-R. (250GB Maxtor midline SATA & NEC DVD-RW
or ASUS DVD-RW drives)<br>
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DMA acceleration would not work on either PATA DVD drive, some FC3
kernels would segfault on startup, Knoppix or Gentoo LiveCDs would not
boot, and other problems.<br>
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I dropped to a 160GB Seagate PATA drive, and aside from it filling up
rather quickly, all the problems went away. That won't solve your
problems, but 2 trips to ASUS RMA and 4 months didn't fix mine either...<br>
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