[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5150

2003-07-30 Thread Eric Fesler
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 9.1 and I've got several issues: I'm using the kernel linux-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise 1°) The harddisk is really slow : hdparm shows a transfer rate of 3.5Mb/s I tried to activate the dma using the command: hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hdc and I got

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5150

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 00:18, Eric Fesler wrote: I tried to activate the dma using the command: hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hdc Do the commands ONE AT A TIME for best results. Really. Try: hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 -m16 -A1 -W1 -X69 /dev/hdc ...and see what you get when you type: hdparm -tT /dev/hdc --