Hi, the DMA read/write transfers are not influenced by the currently block mode setting only the PIO modes are influenced? because the read/write sectors using multiple mode is made on the PIO protocol, and for DMA is no such read/write multiple sectors Thanks Kantor ____________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html - 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