Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: horrible harddrive performance On Tuesday Sep 25 13:08 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > ** Actually we finally got DMA enabled under 2.2.19, but it refuses to > enable > ** under 2.4.9. That's bad! Why this? Have no such problem with kernel 2.

Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:44:10PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > 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 suppo

Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-23 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:44:10PM +0200 or thereabouts, Timeboy wrote: > > > ** 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

Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-23 Thread Timeboy
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