great. thank you.
Abe
>= Original Message From Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
>On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Abe wrote:
>
>>I know what the drive is rated at. Its a 5400 rpm ATA66 (UDMA) 17.4 gig
drive
>>from Western Digital. I just assumed that telling linux to use harddrive
>>optimizations wo
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Abe wrote:
>I know what the drive is rated at. Its a 5400 rpm ATA66 (UDMA) 17.4 gig drive
>from Western Digital. I just assumed that telling linux to use harddrive
>optimizations would imply using the full capabilities of the drive. I'm going
>to try setting it to use a
I know what the drive is rated at. Its a 5400 rpm ATA66 (UDMA) 17.4 gig drive
from Western Digital. I just assumed that telling linux to use harddrive
optimizations would imply using the full capabilities of the drive. I'm going
to try setting it to use a ata66 next time I boot.
What I was
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Abe wrote:
UDMA 66 is a lot faster than a regular (E)IDE interface. It also helps if
you have a harddrive that runs 7200 rpm instead of 5400 rpm. This should
be mentioned on the drive itself.
Paul
>Hey, if you tell me how to do that I will gladly post my numbers. I've got
I'll give it a try next time I boot. Thanks for the info.
Abe
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
>Hi,
>I'm jumping into the middle of this, but thought you may not know this: at
the
>Boot prompt, type "linux idebus=66". (w/o quotes) Sometimes I start this
way,
>but I re
Hi,
I'm jumping into the middle of this, but thought you may not know this: at the
Boot prompt, type "linux idebus=66". (w/o quotes) Sometimes I start this way,
but I really don't notice much difference in performance. YMMV.
TRBishop
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On Thu, 14
