harald.schwier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The machine performs disk dumps from one drive to x drives. The master-drive > must always be sda. The onboard controller is much faster then the pci > controller thus it should be used first. Weird. With SATA it shouldn't make much difference. I suspect that either there's something wrong with the PCI controller, or it's misconfigured. Could you let us see the benchmarks you used to prove that the on-board is faster? Thanks, James. -- E-mail address: james | Where do I stand on Windows? @westexe.demon.co.uk | Away from the ledge. | -- Stan Kelly-Bootle