Niall O Broin wrote:
>
Can't help with the ejectable mounted CD, really weird. You're
not using supermount?
>> P.S. Interactive response on my box suffers when I do such a dd. I've an
> idea it's IDE related. Any more ideas ?
>>
Yep its also kernel related; some kernel versions, and indeed some
builds of the same kernel with different options can produce better
results with IDE devices than others; its all related to the kernel
spinlocks.
One particular 2.4.x kernel was a disaster for me; XMMS would just
starting jerking all over the place when there was heavy disk, or
network activity.
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