nethub at gmail.com napsal(a): > No, I was referring to using the AHCI plus all-generic-ide to get the > SATA controller to function versus using something like Fedora Core 6 > which has support for the SATA controller in the kernel. > > What kind of performance are you getting under your current setup? [root at kubikula ~]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing cached reads: 3684 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1837.69 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 70 MB in 3.03 seconds = 23.14 MB/sec [root at kubikula ~]# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 4284 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2142.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 146 MB in 3.02 seconds = 48.35 MB/sec David