On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:40:25AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0930, Thrashbarg wrote:
> > 
> > As can be seen by the dmesg this is a SIS board...
> 
> I can't remember offhand, but the install kernel may well not have the
> "siside" driver (it would then use "pciide" instead).  Perhaps there is
> some problem with that driver and your motherboard.
> 
> Can you see what happens if you boot -c and disable siside?
> 
> Thor

Yes, same problem. I beleive that the problem is with tar/pax, or something
similar in the userland rather than the kernel, as I can get full speeds when
writing directly to a file from say /dev/urandom.

Thanks

Alexis