Re: [newbie] New HDD

[Dennis Myers]

On Saturday 14 July 2001 13:44, you wrote:
 On Saturday 14 July 2001 12:32 pm, David E.Fox wrote:
   been runnin Linux on for years. I bought an OEM HDD that only came
   with IBM's version of ez-bios on a floppy ($135 from MegaHaus
   Dickinson, TX).
 
snip That same dir on the new
 7200 rpm 2mb cache ata/33 drive loads in about 10 seconds. It's my firm
 opinion that it wouldn't load noticibly faster if I changed kernels and
 got the drive running at ata/100.  I would be risking data corruption
 tho, and draining other system resources. Things like AGP, USB, DDR,
 ata/66 or /100 have never impressed me with their pseudo tricks. I view
 them as marketing tools aimed at the average Windo$ user.  YMMV

Just to let everyone know I installed the Soyo K7-VTA Pro mobo and a 900 mhz 
duron processor last night. It took me 20 minutes to detach all my cards, 
unscrew the old mobo,  put the new board in, replace the cards and reconnect 
all cables. I fired it up and did not have to do anything further, if it had 
been windows I would be reinstalling drivers and rebooting for another hour. 
I just love linux. The board has shown no problems with the SB  live sound 
card and via southbridge, so far.  Can't optimise the HD's but with the 
faster bus my hdparm -t shows 21mb/s + now instead of the 12.8 I got with the 
old board.  Reports I read indicated that Soyo had the problem with the 
viachipset resolved. Don't know, but will see what happens over the next few 
days.  This is for those looking for a new MoBo  to use with AMD processors, 
works for me, YMMV.  : )

Re: [newbie] New HDD

[David E.Fox]

On Monday 09 July 2001 13:19, you wrote:
Well I reckoned that now that I recently built A Tbird 1.55 gig

(wow)

 been runnin Linux on for years. I bought an OEM HDD that only came with
 IBM's version of ez-bios on a floppy ($135 from MegaHaus  Dickinson,
 TX).

Prices sure have come down. I bought the identical drive from a place online 
last October for $165 :(. But the Deskstar is quite a good drive. 

Are you running it on your ata-100 controller? If so, any problems or 
concerns? My deskstar is running ok on the ata-33 controller (or is it 
ata-66) and I have another legacy 1.6 gig maxtor on it as well. 


   I knew ez-bios wouldn't be needed, or wanted, but I wasn't sure I
 wouldn't need DOS fdisk to setup the drive. In a few minutes I had the
 old drive out an the new one in place as hdb. Then I figured, what'a

(sniff) Mine didn't even come with an ez-bios. Come on, this is the year 2001 
-- I thought we didn't need those legacy drivers anymore -- who's going to 
put a 30 gig drive on their XT ? :) :)

And I don't even have a copy of DOS fdisk around (snifff) :)

Still, I was able to tar up the various directories and move them over to the 
new drive after partitioning  formatting. I figured mke2fs would take a very 
*long* time to format 5 gig partitions, but it didn't seem to take that long. 






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David E. Fox  Thanks for letting me
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