> Am I interpreting this correctly as having to choose between fast iops > with low cpu (+ hotplug) with ahci and twice the linear read speed > with ata_piix? Some drives do weird things when NCQ is used and turn off some of their caching in that case so it depends on the drive what happens to linear speed. Alan - 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