On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:17, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > Howdy all. > > > > I've converted a Pentium II-350mhz w/ 128M RAM workstation from Windoze > > to Debian. Unfortunately, it seems that many operations are far slower > > - especially disk access. I've pasted the output of <dmesg> below. I > > do see some error messages regarding VFS mounts. I also see errors > > regarding <devfs> mounts during bootup that are not shown in the <dmesg> > > output - I'd also appreciate knowing what these bootup messages are > > indicating and how to fix 'em. > > > > This is using the latest unstable kernel-image-2.4-686 package, as well > > as the lowlatency and preempt patches. > > Have you enabled DMA on your disk? > > Use hdparm (install via apt-get if you don't have it) and try > something like: > > hdparm -c1 -m16 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda > > However, carefully read the documentation. I believe that in most > cases DMA is disabled by default becuase some drive/chipset combos > are buggy, which can cause severe corruption of data if DMA is > enabled.
His dmesg output shows that the box is running in UDMA(33) mode, which sounds about right for a box that old. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Why should we not accept all in favor of woman suffrage to our platform and association even though they be rabid pro-slavery Democrats." Susan B. Anthony, _History_of_Woman_Suffrage_ http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/essays/introduction.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
