And again, for something completely different. I am hammering my second machine now, a cool Siemens/Fujitsu laptop (named elisabeth) with ICH7 ATA chipset and controller. Currently the ATA controller is in "SATA" mode (ICH7 chipsets allow you to run in native SATA mode or compatible mode, for the HP users, compatible == legacy mode). And for the interested, an lspci -vvv is attached of what goodies are onboard and what exactly we're testing against. Patrick