Messages in this thread | | | From | Adam Keys <> | Subject | Re: Dog slow IDE | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:23:38 -0600 |
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On March 11, 2002 07:40, Tony Hoyle wrote: > For some reason the my IDE is running extremely slow (which accounts for > why this box feels so sluggish).
Are they dog slow after a *cold* start? My solution to slow Maxtor drives was to fix the CPU fans in my machine and put the main drive in a bay cooler. The drive wasn't spewing bad data, so it wasn't the drive controller overheating. That leads me to believe that the motor (or the motor control DSP) was overheating and degrading performance on that route. Trying that will save you lots of hours toying with hdparm like I did :).
Good luck..its a sucky problem but once you get it fixed your machine will seem like new! -- akk~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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