<quote who="Lyle Chapman">

> I posted a message a couple of weeks ago about sluggish HD performance 
> on a new computer - it is a 3ghz P4, Gigabyte MB, 1gb ram and 2 brand 
> new 80gb Seagate 7200rpm drives.

> Any ideas anybody as I do a lot of DV editing and it is really 
> defeating the purpose of purchasing a new ubeat go faster computer.

What does:

  hdparm -dc /dev/hda (or whichever device you're using)

say?

- Jeff

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