Ismael Valladolid Torres <ismaeval(a)terra.es> wrote: The Mother Board Manual states: "The K7SEM is installed with the economical high-performance SiS730S chipset..." Of course, it goes on with other specs, but I thought this would answer the question about if it was SiS. Just as a double-check (because the salesman told me that the manual refers to several different mother boards) I looked (in KDE) under "Information" ---> "PCI" and it says: "00.00.1 IDE Interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 IDE..." I appoligize for my lack of savy. Does this answer the VIA/SiS question? If so, do you have any other ideas of where I may need to investigate next? According to the article, I have the _exact_ Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card _and_ Hard Drive to acheive the highest speeds. The _Hard Drive's_ specs say: Buffer size: 8 MB Average seek time 9.1 MS DATA Transfer rate: 133 MBytes / sec (Ultra ATA/133) Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM So with the ATA/133 Card, the Hard Drive and (following) Hardware/Software specs, shouldn't this be enough to allow flawless multitrack recording: My Software/Hardware: SuSE 8.1 k7SEM Mother Board AMD Duron 1Ghz Processor 256 Megs Ram Soundblaster Live! 5.1 alsa Version 0.9.0.cvs20020903-13 (That's the Alsa that installed with SuSE 8.1 - It hasn't been altered in any way) If you remember, when I installed the card and then did: "hdparm -Tt /dev/dsp" the Timing buffered disk reads MB/sec were lower than before I installed it. So, if you think the card is a worth fooling with, do you have any idea why the Timing buffered disk reads were lower (and how to bring them up)? Thanks, Rocco __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/