> Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I > am running FC6 with > kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance > goes down to a > whopping 1.25mb/sec from 44mb/sec when I boot with combined_mode=libata. Then something is very wrong with the way you are setting it up, or the current code. Please post a dmesg booting with libata driving all your disks and it can get fixed before 2.6.22 Do you happen to know how FC7test4 behaves on your box btw Alan - 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