I am actually starting to suspect that it's Ubuntu 7.10's fault. This appears to be the most brain-dead, stupid, embarrassing operating system in recent history; it is apparently incapable of enabling DMA on a bog-standard PATA hard drive on a run-of-the-mill motherboard.
So, my main drive is performing at a tiny fraction of its potential speed. This might explain things. My previous Suse Linux installation, on the same hardware, was perfect in this respect. -- gborland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gborland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8333 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43135 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
