> also the disk is a Westen Digital raptor and it's probably the most > benchmarked drive one could get so I was not expecting a problem with > the drive. A lot of early NCQ firmware seems to reduce performance and cause problems. At least one other raptor is in our "don't NCQ" list in the kernel drivers. - 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