sounds like a classic case of dma not enabled... try emerging hdparm, setting dma, and then setting hdparm to run at boot.
-chris On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:55, Sean Bossinger wrote: > Good evening: > > I'm a relatively new user to Gentoo, just started using it last week. > > I've noticed that when I'm running in my GNOME desktop, if I'm doing > anything that has to do with the filesystem, reading/writing to/from my > IBM-DTLA7030 drive, I get jitters in the desktop, and rather poor > performance overall. > > I am running my system with an Athlon Tbird 1200 processor, on an Asus > A7M-266 board, which has an ATA100 IDE drive interface to get to the > disk. > > My /boot is an ext3fs file system, while my / (the only other filesystem > that is mounted when this occurs) is ReiserFS. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > M -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
