Hello. Tried today to delete and prepare a fresh installed external USB 2.0 drive as GELI provider, here is the result of an aborted dd: sotokan# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/da0a.eli bs=16k ^C8388825+0 records in 8388824+0 records out 137442492416 bytes transferred in 33883.288406 secs (4056350 bytes/sec) system is a FreeBSD 6.1-STABEL/amd64 box, hardware ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe with AMD64 3500+