I bought a new board [ASUS P5AD2-E] with the ITE 8212 chipset. I have Googled and found only complaints, for the first 5 pages. In one of the results someone mentioned that Alan Cox may be working on the drivers. I disabled the RAID on all the SATA and IDE controllers in BIOS. This new board supports up to 14 drives; Ports - Mfg. - Chipset - Status 1 ATA33/66/100 - Intel - ICH6 - Detected and works 4 SATA150 - Intel - ICH6R - Detected and works 4 SATA150 - SIS - Sil3114R - Appears to be unsupported 2 ATA133 - ITE 8212 - Appears to be unsupported The drives I have listed as "Appears to be unsupported" do not seem to have any drivers loaded, and lspci lists the as "Unknown ..." or something like that. I didn't have time to do much testing yesterday due to family commitments. Any suggestions about what tests I should perform.