The file_readahead setting in ide-cd and ide-floppy obviously assumed read-ahead values are kept as bytes. This made them totally useless. This patch unifies file_readahead with ide-disk making values be stored correctly as pages and displayed as KB. This also changes breada setting to match ide-disk as well (is it really used at all? It appears the only place where it is referenced is reiserfs). The patch is agains Mandrake sources but as I assume it should apply to vanilla kernel as well. cheers -andrey