Hi there, I hope you can answer me a question. :-) Beginning with 2.6.10-bk7, a bug has made its way into the vanilla kernel leading to slow IDE and especially very slow software RAID performance. None of the patches I have found (something with readahead etc.) worked for me. Can you tell me which patch you have included in your Debian packages, so I can adopt them for my own compilations? Thanks Florian