Re: harddisk too slow

From: Rus Foster (rghf_at_fsck.me.uk)
Date: 09/30/03

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    Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:39:21 +0100 (BST)
To: Rui Nóbrega <rui.nobrega@celfocus.pt>

    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 partitions.
    >
    > I had the same problem on RedHat 7.0 and solved it by editing a hd
    > configuration file on /etc. The file isn't there on Debian.
    >

    Assuming this is IDE if so install hdparm and run

    "/sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hda"

    See if that helps

    Rus 

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