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:
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Sat May 5 15:17:10 CEST 2001 - mantel@suse.de
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- fix max-sectors patch (fix horrible SCSI performance)
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After compiling and booting the newer kernel,erformance seems fine now.
Bye
-- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.deInstitut 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/