Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > system. > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm > expecting to get. Why are you expecting 100MB/s? That's the bus maximum bandwidth. It doesn't mean you can physically read data off the disk platter that fast. (5 years ago I was happy to get 7 MB/s of a disk.) Peter