Thanks civilme, both hard drives are on the same channel. according to the bios, both drives are pio mode 4..... I think its the CDROM, I just booted to rescue using it, and it took ages to do that as well... bloody OEM sony :-) PS, how do I mount a reiserfs harddrive from a rescue load? (I just booted from the CD and typed rescue, and now I don't know how to mount my hard disk, it keeps asking for a valid FS type. ) didn't want to try ext2 in case it corrupted things even more.. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 6:45 AM To: Franki; NEWBIE Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake.. On Thursday 26 July 2001 17:12, Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > I just did an install on a test box I have here,, the box details are: > > CPU: Pentium Pro 200, > RAM: 64mb EDO. > MB: FX Chipset. > Harddisks: 4.3 gig Maxtor, and 1.03 gig Seagate. > CDROM: 24speed IDE Sony. > Video: S3 Virge 2mb. > > > > I did a total install of Mandrake 7.2, and it just finished copying files, > it took nearly 6 hours. > > is that normal?? > > > > > rgds > > Frank That's a tad on the long side. If the maxtor and the Seagate are on the same channel and the Seagate is PIO3 or PIO2, that would explain a lot. PPro of course were way way before DMA and almost all thier chipsets run in PIO mode. PIO4 can do about 3-4 Mb/s on a good day, and if the Seagate was on the same channel as the Maxtor, more likely your best read speed was about 1.8 or 1.9 Mb/s Write is necessarily somewhat slower And you are talking about nearly 3G of software installed in a full version. Civileme
