On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:50:53AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > > attaching the drive to a notebook via a IDE/USB converter easily yields > 20 MB/s. So the drive *is* faster. While i could live with 8 MB/s i > cannot accept the high CPU usage. It seems to make the installed crypto > accelerator almost ineffective because the interrupts cannot be served > fast enough. > I suspect that the disk is not running in DMA mode. Is there any tool to > verify that (like Linux's hdparm)? > > Cheers, > Heinrich
A dmesg and the output of "atactl wd0"
