Hi Mark Chou, I meant just just edit the /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and set USE_DMA=1 MULTIPLE_IO=16 EIDE_32BIT=3 LOOKAHEAD=1
later using the command "hdparm -Tt /dev/hda", On looking at "Timing buffered disk reads:" I was looking at between 39 MB/sec to 41 MB/sec, I was very please with the result.. For a board that costs in Australia between AUD$125 - AUD$150, that makes a very inexpensive computer to run Mandrake Linux, and to have all the 3D games running like TUXRacer, Quake 3, with excellent performance was a huge plus. As far as it's sound support goes, it was quite good (Sounds O.K. to me, and the sound in games is excellent), about DD encoding I really don't know much about that. What does that do? is there any Sound card that supports that for Linux as yet? Sounds interesting.. Cheers Mark On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 03:53, Mark Chou wrote: > > Mark (Williamson), thanks for the pointers. It gives me more confidence to actually >go get a nForce 2 board. > > You wouldn't happen to know if the drives are running in DMA mode despite setting >the "USEDMA=0" in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks? It would be a shame if it were still >running PIO. > > Also do you get DD encoding (in Linux) for sound w/ this board? > > Thanks! > > > ------- > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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