You could try putting in one of those LBA drivers (i think maxtor has a
utility on their site for this) to get the bios to recognize the full
size of the drive. You'll end up setting it to type 47 (user) and
entering in the numbers manaually.
You might also want to get a better I/O card. I don't know how
accessible 36pin simms are anymore, but adding more mem always helps.
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> I recently got an old 386 with 4M ram and decided to put Linux on it. The
> HD it came with was only 80M which was too small, so I tried a 1G drive and
> set the CMOS type (it has no auto or user entries ) to type 60 which would
> give me 220M. Strangely the Suse 5.3 boot disk sees it as a 1G drive and so
> far has had no problems using it's full capacity.
>
> The problem I have now is that it is extremely slow, which I expected - but
> I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions of changes I can make to
> speed it up (apart from upgrade the HW). I installed Suse via NFS 2 days
> ago and so far it is as par as yast finishing up with 'setting up Perl'. I
> intend to modularise the kernel to minimise memory it uses and stop
> http/squid e.t.c running.
>
> Would it be better to use Suse 5.2 instead of 5.3?? is it smaller?
> Regards,
>
> Tony Melia MCP
> Server Support Group
>
> * +353 1 2044208
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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