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SubjectRe: Very slow IDE performance
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> The amount of RAM the kernel found was normal, the bogomips value at

Over 64Mb ? If so try mem=64M

> I had her do hdparm -t , which gave a transfer rate of .38 Megs per
> second. Any ideas on what could cause this? Unfortunately, I don't

For some of the very very old drives that is believable, but not for
anything with DMA mode 2. Obvious stuff - is the cache enabled on the
machine, does hdparm -T (test buffer cache) look believable for a P90 etc



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