Hi, I have two i386 computers with close configuration of ATA disks: mercury# atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 <WDC AC14300R/17.01J17> ATA/ATAPI revision 4 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: ad2 <FUJITSU MPB3021ATU/2011> ATA/ATAPI revision 3 Slave: acd0 <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6602B/1017> ATA/ATAPI revision 0 vega# atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 <WDC AC28400R/17.01J17> ATA/ATAPI revision 4 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: ad2 <WDC AC22100H/12.07H12> ATA/ATAPI revision 0 Slave: ad3 <Seagate Technology 1275MB - ST31276A/1.37> ATA/ATAPI revision 2 Mercury is Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard based computer with FreeBSD 5.4-RC2. Vega is Intel 430TX chipset based computer with FreeBSD 5.4-RC1. When I run ' atacontrol cap 0 0' I get the same last part of the output: Feature Support Enable Value Vendor write cache yes yes read ahead yes yes dma queued no no 0/0x00 SMART yes yes microcode download no no security no yes power management yes yes advanced power management no no 0/0x00 automatic acoustic management no no 0/0x00 0/0x00 How could the security feature be not supported and enabled at the same time?