On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Eric Sproul wrote: > Does anyone here have experience with IDE and DMA under recent Linux > kernels? Anyone else have a problem like this? I figured the > integrated controller on a 440GX board would have no compatibility > problems, as it's extremely common. Maybe I'm wrong.
Try doing a "hdparm -d1 /dev/<whatever>" and test the throughput again. As long as it's doing DMA, the drive should work beautifully. Mike