hi, me and dsd have been trying to figure this out in the gentoo forums for a while now and we finally figured out which driver i needed to work on this dell 650 here's the thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3447914.html#3447914 dsd told me to email this list to see if the problem could be resolved. i'm pretty brain dead from working on this so i dont know what else i can add to the topic, but hopefully we can get it resolved. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html