problem is, newbies don't even know they could get better performance.
Nicholas Webb wrote:
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> I noticed this too. Ultra66 drives need 'Use DMA by default' too, and
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> without it they do not run to their full potential (or even close 4MB/sec
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> vs 20MB/sec on my system). So I guess the newbies will either have to
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> learn to recompile their kernels, or live with the rather poor
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> Nick Webb
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> ITS Lab Software
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> University of Idaho
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> http://www.uidaho.edu/~webb3172
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> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Necrotica wrote:
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> > I don't know if this was by design but...
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> > I just installed Mandrake 7.1 last night. I have an AMD Athlon system based on
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> > the Viper chipset. I turned on hard drive optimizations during the install and
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> > when the system booted for the first time it hung hard while trying to turn on
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> > the optimizations.
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> > After a little snooping I found a small issue with the Mandrake-configured
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> > kernel. Support for the AMD Viper chipset is turned on, but if you read the
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> > info, it says "If you say Y here, you also need to say Y to "Use DMA by default
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> > when available", above. Alas, this was set to no. I set this to yes, recompiled
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> > the kernel, and everything works great now.
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> > As I said, I dunno if this is by design but I thought I would mention something
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> > in case it was an oversight.
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> > -Chris
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