I have a quantum fireball ST, 3.2 gig. It sounds quite nice and fast in Windows, but under Linux it thrashes around quite a bit. I hear much much more disk activity than in Windows, and sometimes it sounds unhealthy (I can hear the drive rattling around). This doesn't give me warm fuzzies since the tech sup guy at Quantum told me to replace my drive SOON (in response to another problem.... every now and then it makes a horrible head crashing noise).
Is this because Win95's virtual memory is not truly virtual memory? When I run top, I usually see all my swap (64mb partition) is gone. Usually it's because of X and XEmacs and gimp. Is there any way to tune the control of my drive? I don't know the first thing about this, so I'm not sure where the code controlling the drive resides. But it just "sounds" different in Linux. (Also, is it safe to run defrag. I am very afraid to screw up my Linux partition. I'm getting an identical replacement drive in the mail, and I plan to use something like dd to clone the current one before it checks out.. perhaps: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb will that work?) Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A. Kiyan Azarbar Ottawa, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
