Glad to help, even if all I did was pass on good advice from someone else. :-)
I haven't tried setting read-ahead in MDK yet. I suppose that if the drive you are using already uses 'pre-fetch', the two might work against each other, but I doubt it. I would think that most performance enhancments done at the hardware level in Windows give the same or better results in Linux. It's worth a try. Let me know what happens. I'll take a stab at it tomorrow. It's beddy-by now for this old hound... T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] about DMA & Mdk Linux Thanks so much. I've made the necessary alterations and additions to enable DMA for my hd (hda) and cd-rom (hdc). I will give it a try for a bit and see what happens. What about the option, "Enable drive read-lookahead"? Is that something that is advantageous and safe to use? I think I have something like that enabled in my windows system. All the best. :-) --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James Thurber *************************************** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *************************************** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *************************************** -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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