the NCQ commands contain the FUA (force unit access) field (mandatory), so disabling the NCQ will waste this feature. I don't know how much ans when this feature is usuable, but someday it can be usefull. -saeed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html