Spencer Tuttle wrote:

I have just compiled the new 2.6.14 kernel from the gentoo-sources tree.

I can access the drives just fine, but it seems really slow.  Here is
the dmesg output when I load the kernel module

That's expected, since the driver in 2.6.14 only does PIO mode.

Try 2.6.14-gitN which supports EDMA.

	Jeff