Hi all: i installed custom compiled Gentoo 2007.0 Linux on a new 80GiB IDE disk. (intel P4 2.66GHz , 1GB DDR2 RAM, Intel D101GGC board).
Now i tried copying 43GB of data from the old 80GiB IDE disk to the new disk and it takes about 35 min. to copy 1 GiB. This surely looks slow and strange ! Both are Seagate 80GiB IDE disks and worked fine with Ubuntu 6.06 which i was using until recently. Any suggestions on how to speedup the copy process ? Both the disks share the same IDE cable. Thought that i should mention this, just in case that makes any difference. Any body faced this issue before ? Any suggestions on this ? thanks Saifi.
