Agreed. To the original poster, try using hdparm. You can use it to turn on DMA to the device (which seems like the most obvious source of the problem to me) by using `hdparm -d1 /dev/<device>`. If that doesn't fix the problem, use hdparm to run a test on the hard drive, and also use it to output the hard drive's current settings. Post 'em on the list then. On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:17, Ryan Mackay wrote: > hdparm <- a miracle of a program > > man hdparm will tell all aswell. Enabling DMA would be a good place to > start (hdparm -d 1 device). > > To test the throughput your hard drives are getting try hdparm -Tt device > > I assume device will be /dev/hda in this case > -- > Cheers, > rinmak <rinmak@technine.org> -- Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org>
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