Re: [expert] Odd Hard Disk Slowdown on new MDK 9.0 install

2002-12-29 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Timothy R. Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Rolf, I checked, and it does seem to be the fact that DMA is off on this system vs. on on the laptop. However, when I try to enable DMA, I get "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted." This was while I was booted

Re: [expert] Odd Hard Disk Slowdown on new MDK 9.0 install

2002-12-29 Thread Timothy R. Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Rolf, I checked, and it does seem to be the fact that DMA is off on this system vs. on on the laptop. However, when I try to enable DMA, I get "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted." This was while I was booted up in "failsafe" (no logi

Re: [expert] Odd Hard Disk Slowdown on new MDK 9.0 install

2002-12-29 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Timothy R. Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Okay, I still have a strange problem. I just copied 97 mb in a test folder on two systems. One is a Pentium III 750 laptop with a 10 gig 5400 rpm hard disk. The other is my new Pentium 4 2.66 GHz desktop with

[expert] Odd Hard Disk Slowdown on new MDK 9.0 install

2002-12-29 Thread Timothy R. Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Okay, I still have a strange problem. I just copied 97 mb in a test folder on two systems. One is a Pentium III 750 laptop with a 10 gig 5400 rpm hard disk. The other is my new Pentium 4 2.66 GHz desktop with a 7200 rpm ultra-ATA 100