Hallo, I am very sorry that I didn't mention that I ran Hubert Mantels modified kernels when I had that problem. I now found in Hubert's Changelog: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat May 5 15:17:10 CEST 2001 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... - fix max-sectors patch (fix horrible SCSI performance) ... After compiling and booting the newer kernel,erformance seems fine now. Bye -- Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ---------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/