So far I never really used nfhd. In a kernel that has both IDE and nfhd support, once everything is in the buffer cache, I get: atari:~# dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=1M of=/dev/null 134+1 records in 134+1 records out 141114880 bytes (141 MB) copied, 5.91 seconds, 23.9 MB/s atari:~# dd if=/dev/nfhd8p2 bs=1M of=/dev/null 134+1 records in 134+1 records out 141114880 bytes (141 MB) copied, 17.09 seconds, 8.3 MB/s So nfhd is slower than emulated IDE? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html