Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2000 01:07:38 +0200 | | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | | Subject | Re: Hard Disk Slowdown w/new mobo? |
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On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:59:01PM -0400, Alexander Valys wrote:
> I just purchased a Tyan Tiger 133A motherboard. For those who haven't heard > of it, it uses the Via Apollo Pro133A chipset, which is ATA66-enabled. I am > using two maxtor hard drives- hda=20gb hdb=25gb. They are connected with > ATA66 cable, and are ATA66 capable drives, but they only run at around 2.5 > mb/sec (hdparm -t). Any way to speed these things up? I've heard they > should operate around 30 mb/sec. I remember seeing a post about this a > while ago, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. Any help would be > much appreciated - this upgrade has been hell.
Have you enabled VIA support in the kernel? Are you using the latest kernel?
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