Hi Arthur,

When linux boots it creates a message file. I checked mine and redirected the output to a file called lee. Then I used vi editor to view lee like so:

# dmesg > lee
# vi lee

I found the follow in my message file:

ide: Assuming 33 MZ system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=XX

You might take a look at your /etc/lilo.conf file, although this might not apply to your system. I'm using RedHat Linux system 7.1, and later versions of RedHat no longer use the lilo loader when the system starts up. Anyway, to fix this on my system I would make the following entry in my /etc/lilo.conf file:

append ="idebus=xxx"

I would substitute my 100 Mz bus speed for the xxx above.

I might also be able to fix this if I did a custom kernal configuration and than recompiled my kernal.

This appear to be something you can fix, but you will probably need to do it with a hack. You would need to be very careful when doing this because you could cripple your startup program locking yourself out of your system. It might be a good idea to have a backup kernal configured that could be used to start your linux system just in case.

Again, you will need to research this for your version of Linux.