hdparm can make the difference between an IDE harddrive and something connected to the IDE bus which is about as fast as if I'd type the bits by hand. I am down with that, and my IDE drives are at paramount speeds. I also have an IDE drive in a special bracket that connects via the USB bus and usb-storage makes it available through ide-scsi as sdx. Performance is horrid! piper:/transfer> sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 72.58 seconds =902.95 kB/sec But I can't fix that: piper:/transfer> sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: operation not supported on SCSI disks Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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