Re: harddisk too slow

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, Since this is an IDE-drive we're talking about all you need to do is enable the UDMA modus for that harddrive. You need to run - with root privileges - "hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hda". You should however first test your harddrive so you can see the difference. Run - again with root privileges - "hdp

Re: harddisk too slow

2003-09-30 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 30 Setembre 2003 17:10, en Rui Nóbrega va escriure: > I've installed Debian Woody on my laptop, an Acer Aspire 1601. After some > configuring and player with boot parameters, all is working smoothly with > the exception of disk access. It ta

Re: harddisk too slow

2003-09-30 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Rui Nóbrega wrote: > I've installed Debian Woody on my laptop, an Acer Aspire 1601. After some > configuring and player with boot parameters, all is working smoothly with > the exception of disk access. It takes a long time to copy large files from > diferent directories or pa