Hi, I can confirm this. Check out this bug I opened regarding Intrepid, but unfortunately it seems that no one has looked at it yet: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/285595">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/285595</a> Problem exists since Hardy, Gutsy IO bandwidth performance was *double* (measured, not feels). <div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/18 shirish <<a href="mailto:shirishag75@gmail.com">shirishag75@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all, There is a bug regardig poor performance hard disk IDE which has been filed a year back <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/96693" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/96693</a> . The bug seems to be still relevant as my experience shows <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/96693/comments/42" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/96693/comments/42</a> Can somebody see any issue with my reasoning or anything please lemme know. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/</a> 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>