>>>>> "MJ" == Marcel Janssen <korgull@xxxxxxx> writes: MJ> I've got a Pundit-R with SATA drive and it seems that I'm only MJ> getting a maximum of 14MB/s from that drive, measured using MJ> hdparm. I've seen this as well. And since you didn't provide any information: 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349 (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 8108 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort+ <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177 Region 0: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 1: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 2: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 3: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 4: I/O ports at ff00 [size=16] I don't have a machine with SATA connected to give dmesg, but here's the messages from a PATA machine: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ATIIXP: chipset revision 0 ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: SAMSUNG SP0411N, ATA DISK drive hdb: TSSTcorpDVD-ROM TS-H352A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide1... hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) - J<