On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make > much difference. > You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode > $hdparm /dev/hda
Hi Phil, Thanks for replying. From hdparm... using_dma = 1 (on) > because this is what the patch is ment for. I don't need the IDE-patch > on my Athlon-system, I just do a "hdparm -d1 -X68 /dev/hda" in my boot > scripts and it works. As I understand it, the Viper chipset isn't supported without the patch. I found that if I tried to do "hdparm -d1" without it, nothing happened. Are you using that chipset, or some other disk controller? -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]