yea...2 different ide channels should show about a max possible of ~33mb/sec (max bus on pci is around ~66mb/sec...think this is correct...jus' pulling numbers out of my butt here....lol) on bootup, does it state what the drives transfer speeds are? mine says something like ~'hdds=33mb/sec' on bootup.... On Sunday 19 November 2000 12:37, you wrote: > > I dunno whats up with this. But this is dreadful! > > I am in the middle of copying a large file (1.2GB) from my home directory > to my Windows partition. Both partitions are on two seperate hard drives, > on two different channels of two different EIDE controllers. Both drives > are heavily optimized running in ATA 66 mode. > > You'd think it would copy faster than 8 freaking megs per minute!!!!!! > > I don't need help. I know everything is configured correctly. And normally > file I/O is pretty quick. But this is ridiculous. > > Just complaining. Feel free to ignore me. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- ----- Created with Linux Mandrake 7.2! http://www.linux-mandrake.com
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