Hi, Jon,

on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 00:48 you wrote to amanda-users:

JL> On Solaris x86, one thing that terribly degrades IDE disk
JL> performance is if the driver does not use dma but uses pio mode.
JL> There are even reports of diagnostic tools saying the drive is
JL> using dma, but digging deeper determines that pio mode is in use.

JL> I know not how to check or configure the HD driver on linux,
JL> but it might be something to check.

OT:

hdparm may help.

Try

hdparm -i /dev/hdX

(substitute X with the fitting char for your prim/sec Master/Slave
whatever ....)

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at