On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:30:25PM +0100, Sylvain Bertrand wrote: > Well, I'm using a third drive where redhat7.2 with 2.4.16 is installed to > build a linux-of-my-own on the RAID 0 array(with the first partition as > windows XP). Well... when booting on this "spare" drive, I noticed exactly > the same thing than you: the first drive of the array (hde in my case) has > some troubles that slows down the system in a terribly manner. You can > verify it after somewhere in the /proc filesystem, you have a pdc20xxx > file(probably a HTPxxx in your case) that releaved what you said, the first > drive is not "optimised"(DMA is disabled for instance) but the second drive > is ok. I wonder. Does anyone have an extended partition table which is located in the "second half" of the logical raid ?
