Help Diagnose Slow Disc Access

[Mike McCarty]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> My machine has been running slower and slower, and top seems 
> to indicate lots of I/O wait. I have two ATA discs on a single
> cable, wired for cable select. The master is much faster than
> the slave, which seems to indicate a hardware, possibly disc,
> problem.

So, is there any way I can query the kernel's information about
the disc, and find out what it thinks may be the problem?

Mike
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