Andy Smith wrote: > I tried simply doing a > > dd if=/dev/sd[abcd] of=/dev/null > > To check each disk in a very unsubtle fashion, but it drives the > load average on the machine way way up (like to 20+) Checked that the disks are using DMA transfers (use 'hdparm')? - 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
