On September 18, 2004 4:21 pm, Ben Brown wrote: > Is it possible that you need to force a UDMA mode, using the -X > paramater in hdparm? I've never had to do that, but you can 'man By default, I get about 13.5 MB/sec. When I use -X66 or -X67, this drops to ~10MB/sec. Using -X68 "speeds it back up" to 13.5MB/sec, which makes me think that -X68 is what it's setting itself at as a default. -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx