This past weekend I tried out Linux. SUSE 7.0 to be exact. I had an older compaq and it went very bad.... No sound, no modem, problems with video, etc.... Anyway I believe it was in part at least due to the computer ( usb was there sometimes and not ohters ). I'm thinking of trying it on my other computer.... Here is the idea I have.... This computer use to have a second hard drive and the cabling is still all strung out ( very tight case a lot of pain in hte neck making things reach) so will Linux have a problem booting from the secondary master? The set up would be primary slave - cdrom, secondary master Hard drive 0, secondary slave cdrw. PRimary master would be disconectted to insure current setup would not be tampered with....