Saifi Khan wrote: > 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. > Hi Saifi,
Which disks are you using ? Please send relevant excerpts of the 'dmesg' output. Namita
