Define "long time"! :) Have a look at the 'hdparam' command. It'll allow you to change specific parameters for your drives but it'll also allow you to test the seek time, latency and transfer rates. Compare them with a UDMA/33 drive (I'll post mine if you like) and again with a non-UDMA drives and see if the difference is appreciable. Remeber, UDMA/66 will only give you something like a 20% increase - not the 100% it implies. Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Sean Geoghegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22/02/2000 13:50:13 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] Slow Hard drive Hi I have Mandrake 7.0 on an Athlon 500 with 128MB and a 13GB UDMA 66 Quantum Harddrive. My hard drive takes a long time to access things in Linux is it possible that UDMA is not enabled? How can I check this and enable it. Does the Kernal that comes with MD7 support this.
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Hi I have Mandrake 7.0 on an Athlon 500 with 128MB
and a 13GB UDMA 66 Quantum Harddrive. My hard drive takes a long time to
access things in Linux is it possible that UDMA is not enabled? How can I
check this and enable it. Does the Kernal that comes with MD7 support
this.
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