Hi! I hate to be a grump, but this is in no way a bad burn. What I didn't realize until about 2 hours ago was that DMA was turned OFF by default. I turned it on and did not get the hdc- ide: device not ready message. (Which would propogate itself for about 5 minutes before indicated kernel panic.) " knoppix dma " did it just fine. Is it just me, or do many problems get lumped into "bad burning"?

Thank you everyone for your help.
Derek