On Sunday Sep 23 04:00 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > ** > ** Hey people. > ** > ** My wife has become a Linux convert (woohoo!), but unfortunately I'm > having > ** a problem getting decent performance out of her computer. She has a P-III > 800, > ** which is faster than my 450, but the harddrive performance is a bottleneck > on > ** her whole system. It's horribly slow. > ** > ** The following is from the boot messages: > ** > ** ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
Which kernel is running on this system? Sorry if my idea has nothing to do with your trouble. But i had a similar problem with my new Abit mainboard. And i used a board with ALI15x bevore too. How i know the ALI15x chipset is supported since kernel 2.4.0. The same with my current via chip of Abit board. The IDE bus of my Abit board is very very slow if i use a 2.2.x kernel. And it's possible that your ALI15x also have this problem if you use an 2.2.x kernel. If you use this old kernel, try kernel 2.4.x. Timo -- Nothing is impossible! You only need to know the way. :-) END
