On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 11:44 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Kirk Bocek wrote: > ><snip> > Right now, I am not looking for maximum performance. I am just trying > to determine why there is a 3x difference in write performance between > two identical machines. > P.S. I know you're not using DMA, I just rattled of some common things I checkfor when seeing discrepancies like this. Seating issues are, after all universal. With SCSI, I always check to be sure active termination (if appropriate) is in place. Bad terminations slow SCSI way down. -- Bill