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On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Qing Liu wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I did a very simple test sometimes ago on deleting files and found that it
> is much slower on SCSI than on IDE drive !

(whoops sorry for the previous non-answer!)

Do you have IDE write caching enabled?

-Eric