* John Rowe (rowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) [20050629 18:31]: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.13 seconds = 20.45 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.85 seconds = 16.62 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.31 seconds = 14.85 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.79 seconds = 13.36 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.73 seconds = 23.44 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.72 seconds = 23.53 MB/sec These are very low values. A modern 250G drive should exceed 50MB/sec. What kind of IDE controller do you use? Peter -- .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'' Kelemen Péter / \ / \ Peter.Kelemen@xxxxxxx .+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html