&gt;&gt; i use WD Caviar Green model WD20EARS (2TB SATA II) without any problems. I<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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&gt;&gt; installed from erik&#39;s 9atom.iso<br>
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</div>&gt; Did you toggle any jumpers on the drive? I finally gave up and returned it.<br>
<br></blockquote></div>No. No jumpers at all are inserted. It worked just out-of-the-box. I had first to switch to &quot;Treat SATA as AHCI&quot; in BIOS...then I installed from 9atom.iso (not the newest version, however). I still have a huge amount of data on an ext2 formatted HD, because ext2srv had problems with too many files/subdirs. I think I will have to write a tar from linux to (another, unformatted HD) and then untar to fossil... is it an absolutely crazy idea?<br>