Dale writes:

> For the record, hda and hdb are not even mounted.  I am currently using
> hdc for the OS.  The drive used to be a lot faster than this.  I used
> it for my OS a good while back and recently used it for /var/portage
> and /usr/portage.  I'm not sure what has changed so I can't figure out
> why it is so slow.  Anyone see something I am missing?  All I see is
> the others are udma6 while it is udma5.  It has always been that way
> tho.
> 
> Thoughts?

hdb is in slave mode, maybe this slows things down? If you want to be 
sure, you could exchange hda and hdb (that is, exchange a jumper so master 
becomes slave and vice versa, unless you have it set to 'cable select'), 
and check again.

        Wonko

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