->The rest of the IDE stuff shouldn't apply to SATA unless the standards committees have done a real botched job of things.<- I have one Seagate Barracuda SATA drive that is seen by the system BIOS on the primary master IDE channel. I suspect different boards and BIOSs will handle SATA differently - some will handle it as some kind of SCSI, and some as some kind of IDE, but I could be wrong. I have used hdparm on my SATA drive as though it were an IDE, but it didn't change much. Matt
