Hello I've got a sil3124 card which doesn't seem to use the full speed of my drives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xe0850000 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 17 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xe0852000 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 17 ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xe0854000 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 17 ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xe0856000 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 17 scsi0 : sata_sil24 ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 21.00M21, max UDMA/133 ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 1) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 scsi1 : sata_sil24 ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata2.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 21.00M21, max UDMA/133 ata2.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 1) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 scsi2 : sata_sil24 ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata3.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 21.00M21, max UDMA/133 ata3.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 1) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 scsi3 : sata_sil24 ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata4.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 21.00M21, max UDMA/133 ata4.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 1) ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why does it tell "max UDMA/133" but then just uses UDMA/100? and what about the NCQ depth 1? Theo - 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