Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Turn off NCQ on the drive, limit to 1.5GBps operation, try again, I have > the same issue with a new RAPTOR (NCQ) and old motherboard. Yup, that was the problem. The VIA chipset did not support SATA-II. I had to set a jumper on the disk to slow it down to SATA-I. Unfortunately, they didn't tell that jumper setting on the disk's sticker, and the disk didn't come with a jumper, so it was not obvious. Thanks and regards Hadmut - 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