> can you post a dmesg? These are all the logs / info I could get my hands on remotely. The 'ubuntu' ones are from a boot with the Ubuntu 7.10 live-CD. The 'native' ones are from the Debian lenny test install on the Atlas The above have dmesg, lspci -vvnnxb and hdparm -I The xml is from the dban-beta. Rest is from various tries with dban-1.0.7 These last two might have more disks connected. > what firmware is on the 7V300F0? VA111630, according to hdparm -I Thanks for helping, C. - 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