Am 24. Apr, 2003 schw=E4tzte Vaughn Treude so: > Thanks to Steve and Bryce for their suggestions on my system freeze/insta= ll > hang problem. The initio SCSI card did seem to be the problem. I remove= d it > and was able to install Mandrake 9.1. I put it back in and Mandrake 9.1 = did > not recognize it. On the one hand, I'd like to access my Jaz drive. On = the > other hand, the system is stable... Have you tried loading the initio driver by hand? modprobe initio Is your card supported by the driver. I use an initia card in my test box a= t work. No probs. Depending on what I have running I have debian, SuSE or Red Hat in that box. You don't need a hard drive on the SCSI card. I've seldom had hard drives o= n my SCSI cards. Have you tried installing with the card in, but no cables connected to it? Have you tried the card in multiple slots? ciao, der.hans --=20 # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.TOLISGroup.com/ # "Communications without intelligence is noise; # Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." # Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC