Ruslan Sivak wrote: > > Thank you for the links. Looks like my controller doesn't support NCQ > :-(. I have the SIL 3114 based card. Doesn't look like there are any > cheap alternatives on the PCI bus, but I think I can live with the > performance of this system. > > Russ > > Promise SATA300 TX4 ~ $60 @ newegg Fresh install of centos 5 x85_64: sata_promise 0000:01:0a.0: version 1.04 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17 GSI 20 sharing vector 0x3A and IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 58 ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000020200 ctl 0xFFFFC20000020238 bmdma 0x0 irq 58 ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000020280 ctl 0xFFFFC200000202B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 58 ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000020300 ctl 0xFFFFC20000020338 bmdma 0x0 irq 58 ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000020380 ctl 0xFFFFC200000203B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 58 scsi4 : sata_promise ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata5.00: ATA-8, max UDMA7, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi5 : sata_promise ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) scsi6 : sata_promise ata7: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata7.00: ATA-8, max UDMA7, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata7.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi7 : sata_promise ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) -- Toby Bluhm Midwest Instruments Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2250