Sorry one more question to annoy everybody with, I have installed a new 80gb seagate drive and the problem is when I copy something to or from it I am getting a woeful 3 mb/sec transfer speed.
I ran hdparm -Tt /dev/hda and the result was the cache access was reporting the right speed but disk access was 3.5meg/sec (pathetic) I ran hdparm again and turned all the go faster bits on, this increased it to 5.5 meg/sec. Although I did notice that I get a DMA error in hdparm when trying to turn DMA on. Any ideas anyone, thanks? Lyle Chapman Pre-Press Supervisor Torch Publishing Co. www.torchpublishing.com.au 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park 2200, NSW, Australia (02) Ph: 9795 0000 (02) Fax: 9795 0096 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
