Just edited your way brink. Rebooted. Followed directions to test it again. Still NO zero's, same data showing. Currently running ubuntu 10.10, so I know the kernel supports trim. Might have to put another hard drive in it and use the ssd in my windows machine as a scratch disk. Bummer.
Brink, only "* Data Set Management TRIM supported. " shows up when typing what you said to do.

Borrowed this from superuser:

sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda | awk '/.*TRIM supported.*/{ if ($1 == "*") print "Yes, TRIM is enabled"; else print "No, TRIM is not enabled.";}'

http://superuser.com/questions/125069/how-do-...t-trim-is-activated-linux

The sda bit to be replaced by whatever your system assigned to your ssd, in ext4 of course.

Meantime, I've installed now the free version of TeamViewer on all systems replacing TightVnc and LogMeIn running on LAN and remote control. Works a treat, installers available for Windows and Linux and Mac. The Linux version actually runs in a Wine session, the installation transparent... fetch the right rpm/deb file and go.

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/index.aspx

Much much better [speedier and resolution scaling] than LogMeIn, but retaining the old as it still can run within me favorite FF webbrowser.

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No. Just found out there is an update to it. Will have to wait until my cache is empty before upgrading. Thanks.

Finished updating the firmware today. Works like a charm now.

BUT, I think something else got screwed up. The directions to do the update required me to switch from ACHI to IDE mode. I did this and completed the update. When I was finished, forgot to change it back. Fired up fine in IDE mode. Shut down to change it back. I get some errors, but after a small delay, it fires back up. Crunching fine but not sure if I should fix this or leave it go. Suggestions?

Did some research and switching between IDE and ACHI shouldn't be a problem. Am using 10.10. Can I use the 10.4 install disk to repair or is there a command to get grub to display boot options instead of booting straight into ubuntu? Tnks

Found out holding left shift brings up boot option menu on start.

Nice find Sek. Read over some of your links. Interesting read. Am probably going to leave ubuntu and move my second system to win7. My main system runs win 7 64 crunching DSFL. With 23 threads crunching, my CPU time vs actual time is less than 1 minute. Even on other projects, about the same. My hex system running ubuntu 10.10 seems to be problematic with 5 to 10 minutes difference. Have tried different versions of ubuntu, have switched to a ssd, thinking it was my hard drive. If I reduce my threads to 9 out of 12, the difference comes down. On my dual hex running win7 64, doesn't matter if I crunch 23 or 3 threads. Less than a minute. For me, Win 7 64 bit is more efficient as far as I can tell. Good luck tweaking Linux. I'm giving up.