On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Simon Haddon wrote: > The question to ask is why are my stats so low compared to the other > hdparm stats. I had low performance until I built my kernel with specific support for my IDE chipset. The symptom was that a "hdparm /dev/hda" said that DMA is not turned on. I think this was the one that fixed it (for me): CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y Brett