> > when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on the the same > > controller the whole systems stalls. I am running 2.4.19 on unstable. > > Wow. I have the same situation, (can't give you the specs, other than > to say the primary is a 16GB drive of 1999 era, and the secondary is a > 40GB drive of late 2001 era. > > I get a good 20MB/sec or more to each drive, by themselves, and > copying between drives is unexpecedly quick (quicker than copying from > the one drive to itself) on the 2.4 series kernels. No kernel stalls > or anything to make the system less interactive. Tim,
I don't have a problem with raw throughput. For both disks hdparm reports around 37 MB/sec, though konqueror reports around 7 MB/s. The problem is that nothing else is really running when copying between those two disks. I wonder if your drives are on the same cable? hda/hdb? Your system is not stalling when copying large files, right? Cheers, Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
