Using an AsRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard and a Western Digital sata drive, I have been having alot of trouble.&nbsp; I found AHCI driver to work, at least detect the drive/partitions.&nbsp; I have had no end of problems.<br><br>I had moved this drive from another machine w/ a Tyan motherboard, where it worked flawlessly.&nbsp; Most recently, it is impossible to write to the drive (at least alot of times): it causes what seems like a lockup.&nbsp; I cannot find anything about this.&nbsp; I compiled AHCI support into 
gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2.&nbsp; <br><br>I want to ask if some kind soul can point me in a useful direction?<br><br>Alan<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com">lngndvs@gmail.com
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