> And indeed, dmesg on my Mac-mini now knows about: > > acd0: DVDR <MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123/CAD4> at ata1-slave BIOSPIO Try a 'dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null' with a few ctl-T's, and then compare against /dev/ad0 to see how slow the hard drive is :( later, Peter.