Kartsa wrote: ... > So, hdparm did no good. I have been running vdr now for a couple days with Try hdparm -I /dev/sda on my system, it says ... DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 ... which I interpret as: "this device suuports mdma0-udma6 and is currently running in udma6 mode.". Carsten.