All of the ad copy and doc I can find claim that the sata controller in the 890gx supports 6Gbps sata3. But I still get this: ahci 0000:00:11.0: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x3f impl SATA mode ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata2.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-xxxxxx, 05.xxxxx, max UDMA/133 I hadn't noticed before because that box's first drive only supports 3 Gbps. Does the 6Gpbs mode require that all of the disks are sata3? (That would be /most/ annoying, given that optical drives all seem to be 1.5Gbps.) Did MSI screw something up on the board? Or is the ad copy exaggerative? I took a look though the bios config; I didn't find anything relevant. -JimC -- James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- 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