I got my Promise card and everything is up and running without problems, using kernel 2.6.24-rc6 and the sata_promise driver out of the box: 00:0c.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA 300 TX2plus) (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA 300 TX2plus) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 17 I/O ports at b400 [size=128] I/O ports at b800 [size=256] Memory at ef025000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at ef000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 98020000 [disabled] [size=32K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: sata_promise Drive is a Samsung HD321KJ 320 GB and hdparm says the drive does ~75 MB/s; with dd it does buffered writes at ~85 MB/s and reads ~295 MB/s. So all in all I'd say it's not the card or the driver.. hth, Holger - 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