Rob, Thanks for your help again. After updateing the PE2650 to the latest PERC3 DC firmware and driver I am now getting closer to the speeds I should be at. I was running firmware version 1.91 and am now running 196T. Boy it sure runs smoother now ;) , but its still not where it should be. Things ran really smooth on Suse I just don't get why they are not as good with fedora after updating everything. I can see/feel the performance difference between the 2 distro's just not as much now with the latest firmware and driver. [root@mail root]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 176 MB in 3.01 seconds = 58.47 MB/sec [root@mail root]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 258 MB in 3.00 seconds = 86.00 MB/sec [root@mail root]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 258 MB in 3.00 seconds = 86.00 MB/sec [root@mail root]# -- Avery
