hdparm or ide howto

["Greg Wiley" <greg@orthogony.com>]

Good day all.

Is anyone aware of a document or set of ducuments
that describe Linux (E)IDE support?  It seems to me
that some sort of primer on tuning IDE and demysti-
fying the newer technologies such as ATA and
UDMA would be a significant HOWTO asset.

This is prompted by the recent discussion on this list
which poked at a buried suspicion I have had that my
(pretty new) IDE HDDs are not performing at their
best.  I get unexplained system slowdowns that I never
had on much older/slower systems that used SCSI.

TIA,

  -=greg