I have tested and confirmed on three different systems (P3, P4, and VIA) that accessing a IDE HD is painfully slow when using dd, fdisk, mke2fs, etc... I have also found that when a ext3 file system is mounted, disk access is poor and may show as read-only under certain conditions.

Can someone please advise on this or point me to where I should file this as a bug report?

Thanks in advance,

Stu Sheldon
ACT USA