-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:45, Chris Walters wrote: > > Go to My Computer, right-click and select Properties from the drop down menu. > > Then select the Hardware tab and click on the Device Manager (alternative get > to the same point from the Administrative Tools). > > Click to expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and then Right-click on "Primary > IDE channel". Select Properties and then the tab Advanced Settings. Set the > options from the drop down menus on this tab as follows: > > Device 0 > Device type: Auto Detection > Transfer Mode: DMA if available > Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA Mode 5 <-- this should be selected > automatically without you having to type it in, but you may have to aheam! > reboot. :) > > Device 1 > (Ditto if you have a second device). > > Click OK to accept the settings and then go Disk Drives in the Device > Manager. > Right-click, select Properties and then the tab that says Policies. > Tick "Optimise for performance" and also tick "Enable write caching on the > disk". If this had not been switched on already, then you will see a > significant performance difference after selecting it. Erm, finally, did I > say that you may need to reboot . . . :)) > > HTH.
Hello Mick, Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, I have already tried this and it did not work. So, I ended up having to do a complete factory restore. Now it works in UMDA 6. This, of course, was not my first choice, but it seemed to be my only choice, given what I had tried. Regards, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFFcF8MUx1jS/ORyCsRCKfQAJ9P5THSEqSdy/8YV23y+e4uA08kdACfYeE0 hDSP3qG9LR85X41nSPPWejU= =Uzsk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
