I had a 40 GB Maxtor ATA drive in my server running Slack for a while, then Gentoo. I had a similar problem with the drive getting slower and slower all the time. Now it will read at less that 5MB / Sec, sometimes under 1 with only 5% of the drive used. Tried on multiple machines and confirmed that UDMA was enabled. I agree... Don't buy Maxtor!
Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca -----Original Message----- From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Justin Patrin wrote: > Already knew about that. It's set to the highest setting already. As I > said, it used to work much better but it's been getting slower and > slower lately. If its 3 or 4 years old I would try replacing it. (And dont buy Maxtor - they suck). -- A. -- [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
