hi stan if the motehrboard sees the disks during bootup...you should be okay...
you can download the latest hdparm from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/utility-patches/ be sure to turn on dma mode hdparm -d1 /dev/hda - lots of options to play with... to see how fast/slow you are... hdparm -tT /dev/hda .... before and after turning on DMA mode check to see if you have the ata-100 or ata-133 ide patches http://www.LinuxDiskCert.org c ya alvin On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Stan Brown wrote: > I've gt a new modern mtherboard, and an IBM drive in a system I just built. > > I thought I'd play around with hdparm, and tweak up the disk preformance. > I've got a custom compiled 2.4.17 kernel. > > Much to my supris, virtually everything I tried came back as not available. > > Are ther kernel patches, or something that I need to apply to get DMA, and > 100Meg transfer speed working? >