On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:09:16 +0100 "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" wrote: > I am not Jeff but, SATA is embedded SCSI infrastructure, thus you get > sda device. Not with the libata VIA driver. > Performace is so bad because of workaround for Seagate drives (max > 15kb/transfer or alike). HDParm won't help you. I had to apply the mm patch for 2.6 to get the full performance out of my 3112 (also Seagate drives) using the IDE (non-libata) driver. Didn't test libata for the 3112 after applying. Regards, -- Steffen Beyer GnuPG key fingerprint: 6C9B 2844 AF75 AC7A C38C 9FFD 06CB A788 398B D2D9 Public key available upon request or at http://wwwkeys.pgp.net