Hi, A little test-question. I am getting some strange timings... Hardware: PIIX4: 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] and a Creative 52mx CD-ROM (managed with kernel ide, master on IDE1) and a Yamaha 8424 CDRW (also IDE, with ide-scsi+sg). Software: 2.4.5-ac9+andre-ide-patch Test: read a big file (634Mb) to disk. The copy takes nearly 9 minutes from the 52x Creative and 3.5 from the 24x Yamaha. ??? Can it be soft ? The difference between ide-scsi and native ide ? Or just the Creative hardware is s... ? -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.5-ac9 #1 SMP Wed Jun 6 09:57:46 CEST 2001 i686 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/