Trevor Smith wrote: > Most interestingly, despite the MUCH newer hardware I'm running, my throughput > is only 10MB/sec -- not 20MB/sec like he's getting with 8 yr old equipment. > Even with the same settings he uses. Even without the settings he uses. NO > matter what. Trevor: I've read this whole thread, but I haven't seen you confirm that you've got DMA turned on with this drive. Often speeds like that mean DMA is off. Can you post the results of hdparm -v /dev/hda just so we can see what you settings really are? Thanks, James. -- E-mail address: james | Banana in disk drive error @westexe.demon.co.uk |