> > Which to me shows that it is using ATA100... However: > > Don't believe that's quite the case. That is reading what the drive is > capable of. Per the hdparm man page: > > -i Display the identification info that was obtained > from the drive at boot time, if available. > > What does "hdparm /dev/hda" return (that's how the drive is currently > configured).
burnt:/home/mellofone# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 4865/255/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0 HDIO_GET_BUSSTATE failed: Input/output error I'm no expert, but that doesn't look good :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]