On Aug 31, 2007, at 12:20, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > See if the drive supports DMA and 32-bit IO and if it does set it > with hdparm (put in the hdparm.conf to do so across reboots). I guess that is what I am asking. How do I do set the appropriate parameters with hdparm? > And look into getting a SATA replacement, the PATA on these boards > are really meant for DVD/CD-ROMs, etc. The are all SATA drives (2 HDDs and 2 optical drives). But because there are two controllers, one of the HDDs shows up as /dev/hda and the other as /dev/sda. Alfred