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

harddisk too slow

2003-09-30 Thread Rui Nóbrega
Title: Message 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 partitions.   I had the same