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
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
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