Stefan Goessling-Reisemann wrote: > Question2 : Why does this not happen on my Desktop? I also have a
Windows/vfat partition (at the beginning of the disk) and a Linux/ext3 partition somewhere else on the disk, but there is *no* difference in disk I/O.
Is DMA enabled on your laptop? When you upgraded kernels (if you rolled your own) it is possible that you forgot to configure it with "enable DMA by default." -Roberto Sanchez
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