I did a fresh expert install using hd.img. I've also just installed a
Promise Ultra UDMA100 card and a 40GB Maxtor UDMA100 disk
as /dev/hde.
Problems...
1. Halt or reboot shuts down all the processes correctly, then gives
the message: "INIT - no more processes in this run level" and just
sits there like that for ever. Consequently, I suffer a fscking fsck
every time. I'm now using "/sbin/shutdown -f -r now" for reboot
until you can advise me something better.
2. My nice new UDMA100 disk is recognized as a UDMA33, which is a
tad disappointing. I also have a UDMA66 version of that disk (same
size) on the same PDC20267 which is correctly recognized and runs
faster:
[23:06 root@penguin:/home/peter]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.26 seconds =101.59 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.40 seconds = 18.82 MB/sec
[23:06 root@penguin:/home/peter]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hdf
/dev/hdf:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.23 seconds =104.07 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.32 seconds = 27.59 MB/sec
I'll leave the optimizing up to the Promise controller, because the last
time I experimented with hdparm the performance difference was negligible
and my /var directory reported it was full (although `ls` couldn't explain
why `du` came to that conclusion). All was OK after reboot - no
corruption, just crazy file size reporting.
3. Konqueror just dumped me off the machine while it did an unprovoked hard
reset. KDE2 may look pretty but it's buggier than Win98 - not worthy of
release status.
Comments:
I'm glad that great ASCII penguin has gone, but I have neither "issue" nor
"issue.net" in /etc, so I get a very bare prompt "penguin login:" - you
surely didn't intend this.
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Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice
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