On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 17:03 +0200, Marc Bowes wrote: > Sorry to bother, but this is really bugging me! I can't seem to find anybody > else with the same problem. What steps should I be taking to figure this > out? I'm thinking I should be trying other kernel versions and/or plugging > drives in different places. I don't think the motherboard is faulty, and I > seem to be getting good speeds (~70mbs) to all four drives. Well, those are on the AHCI built in controller. The one with the slow response is the empty JMicron 20360/20363. But why this should be so, I've no idea ... it looks like the AHCI driver can't tell the phys are empty for some reason, which could be due to many things. James -- 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