This seems to have fixed the 66% slowdown -- disk speeds w/hdparm. They are reading in the same range. For others -- my problem was that I upgraded from a 2.2.x config -- I thought 'make xconfig' would add additional new params as needed as 'make config' does. Guess I thought wrong. Thanks, Andre, for the quick help/fix! -linda > -----Original Message----- > From: Andre Hedrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:40 PM > To: Linda Walsh > Subject: Forwarded mail.... > > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > was > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y > > Added a few missing........ > > > Andre Hedrick > Linux ATA Development > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/