Jeff Garzik wrote: [trim] > Given that some drives might be better tuned for benchmarks in > non-queued mode, and that a major behavior difference is that your > drives are now NCQ-enabled, the first thing I would suggest you try is > disabling NCQ: > http://linux-ata.org/faq.html#ncq I see in my bootup messages: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata6.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 21.00M21, max UDMA/133 ata6.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/1) ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 and I wonder how to interpret "NCQ (depth 0/1)". Does this drive support NCQ or not? Controller: Promise SATA-II-150-TX4. Kernel: 2.6.21.5, x86 -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://samba.org/eyal/> - 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