Hi, A disk performance question :-) I have two UW scsi disks (IBM [id 6] and Quantum [id0]) on the same UW SCSI-3 Tekram controller [id 7]. Nothing else is attached to the controller. Controller is set to 40MB/sec transfer rate in its scsi config utility. It detects disks correctly and sets the transfer rate to 40MB/sec (I can see that when the system boots and scsi info is displayed). Quantum disk is capable of 40MB/sec and IBM is capable of 80MB/sec. Kernel is configured with the highest possible number (40MHz) for transfers. I was copying a large file (50Meg) from quantum to ibm disk using mc. mc has a nice feature that shows you the transfer rate in MB. That indicated the transfers of ~3MB/sec... I have to note that I was going from a native linux partition to a fat32. But anyway, why is it so slow? thanks, -alexm -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>