> > is there a way to tweak things up.. so that speed will be a little > > faster? > There was also something in the Linux Journal about DMA mode in ide > hard drives to speed up Linux. I forget the name of the config file, > anyone??? /etc/sysconfig/harddisks I use these options (old hardware): USE_DMA=1 MULTIPLE_IO=16 EIDE_32BIT=3 EXTRA_PARAMS=-u1 Read 'man hdparm' carefully because some of given options may damage your filesystem. On some hardware changing to the last kernel from kernel.org (whithout rh patches) may help (it works for me). -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list