> I am glad that you mentioned ext3 because while I curse
> ReiserFS, I really
> don't think that it is part of the problem. Definately
> PCI-dma related, but
> does onboard IDE (i.e., my system disk) use DMA in the same
> way that a PCI
> adapter such as Promise does?
I'm not a hardware expert, but since on-board IDE controllers usually appear
as PCI devices to the OS, I assume they do DMA the same way.
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