Hugo wrote:
>I doubt it will double disk transfer speeds;
>...
>the fastest ARM-based hardware we have will manage about 6MB/sec

I have not timed anything on the empeg yet (no devel system installed),
but I did just try it on my gateway (SA110-based NetWinder).

The difference between "off" and "8" for multmode was only 5-10% throughput,
hovering around 3.8MByte/sec and 4.2MByte/sec.
Turning on DMA (Netwinder) has a much bigger impact: 10.53MByte/sec.
The Newinder uses a PCI-bus'd SL82c105 IDE controller with BM-DMA capability.

But Empeg is designed to excel at audio, not disk I/O.

{ by the way, thanks for bringing us such a fun toy, Hugo!