Not always true, some motherboards have both bus-mastering & non-bus-mastering PCI slots. Richard Quilhot >All of the slots of a particular type (IDE, PCI) are identical. They are >attached to the bus in exactly the same fashion with the exact same pinouts, <snip> Jim Meagher ----- **Need help with PCBUILD mailing list? Send an Email to:** Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> or Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>