FalconFly wrote:

Yep, it's on SMP Kernel, and already configured to absolutely minmum.
(I think I use like ~250MB of that 60GB Harddrive I had lying around ;)

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What does
hdparm -d /dev/hda
tell you about dma access (on or off)?
If it's off, set it on with
hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
that should help a tad.

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