Re: harddisk too slow

From: Martin Jungowski (jungowsk_at_in.tum.de)
Date: 09/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:53:29 +0200

    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 - "hdparm -tT /dev/hda"
    then set the DMA and 32-bit flag, then run that test again. You'll see
    the difference ;)

    And since you may not want to do that everytime after you rebooted, you
    have to add that to one of your startup scripts in /etc/rcS.d -
    preferably the first one.

    MJ

    On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 17:10, 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.
    >
    > Thanks for your help.
    >
    > Rui Nóbrega
    >
    > "always look at the bright side of life" Monty Python :) 

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