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