Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Very slow IDE performance | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:46:56 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The amount of RAM the kernel found was normal, the bogomips value at
Over 64Mb ? If so try mem=64M
> I had her do hdparm -t , which gave a transfer rate of .38 Megs per > second. Any ideas on what could cause this? Unfortunately, I don't
For some of the very very old drives that is believable, but not for anything with DMA mode 2. Obvious stuff - is the cache enabled on the machine, does hdparm -T (test buffer cache) look believable for a P90 etc
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