Quoting Jay Estabrook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I still use my good old Multia as my primary server at home > > and added a 12GB IDE disk some time ago to it to replace the old > > 0.5GB internal SCSI disk that was having problems. > > > > The new disk works fine, it is just that the disk transfers are horribly > > slow and basically eats up all of the few CPU cycles that the poor machine > > has while doing IO to the IDE disk...... > > It's possible that somebody hacked something up, but I kinda doubt it. > You could look at the chip involved (I think it's an INTEL SuperIO chip, > or perhaps the ISA bridge itself), and see what it's capable of, then > check the IDE driver docs in the kernels.
If I remember correctly it is in the ISA bridge. I'll take a closer look at it. > Most folks found a way to hook up an external SCSI box, which, even > though only FAST-10, was a whole lot better than the IDE... I also have a pair of 9GB SCSI drives attached to it, but still the internal disk is the one where I keep the core of the OS. It is just the idea of using this incredibly neat and compact package as a server. Mike
