> This is alive and well in 2.6.13 (final) on ia64. Or perhaps not. When I went into the machine room to take a look at this machine, I found that the disk drive in question was making some very bad noises. A few minutes later it stopped responding at all. Putting in a new drive, I see a consistent 51 MB/s on /dev/sdb Sorry for the noise. -Tony - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html