Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm? Mine looks like that /dev/hda: multcount = 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 38760/16/63, sectors = 39070080, start = 0 busstate = 1 (on)
And they're still not optimized, but it works well. Try at least hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd? in order to enable dma egidio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

