On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:40:59PM -0500, Steffen Persvold wrote: > I noticed it when trying to start applications such as Evolution, > FireFox, OpenOffice etc. but then I started testing it with hdparm -t : Can you file a bug on that and include the identify data for the drives. My guess would be haldaemon is polling the drives and that would muck up the performance in some cases. However it shouldnt be polling too often