Well...the best I recall a DX4/100 was equivalent speedwise to a
P75....quite a bit faster than a P60.
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Keith Snape
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 9:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] CD-ROM Troubles
>
>
>
> I apologize if this message is being sent to the wrong
> mail list, but if so, could you let me know where I
> shoudl foreward it please.
>
> Basically, I've just "upgraded" from a 486 DX4 100Mhz
> Linux box (on which I started to introduce myself to
> linux), to a Pentium 60mhz (Both with 40 Megs of RAM).
> I have as so far notice an INCREDIBLE drop is system
> speed (where the current pentium is making the 486
> look like a Sparc! I havent the foggiest idea why this
> may be (but for the possible fact that while
> installing SuSE on the pentium, I was using the 5.2
> boot disk with 5.3 CDrom ). If anyone knows how I can
> speed this up, as it takes almost 15-20 mins to load
> up SaX (and then the mouse takes around 5 minutes to
> respond to movements), it is practically impossible to
> do anything. Any suggestions would help.
>
> Secondly, my problem is that on upgrade, I also
> purchased a 32x Samsung CDROM. I have recently
> discovered that all kernel versions prior to 2.2.0
> have a bug with the transfer rate from that particular
> brand of drives (ie: 65534 instead of 65535 for packet
> sizes). I am aware that there is a patch to upgrade
> to 2.2.x that fixes the bug, but I wonder if that
> would be usable for the current kernel version that
> comes with SuSE 5.3 (2.0.35 I believe). Or, if there
> is anything I can do to overcome this transfer problem
> (I managed to get around it with some minor bios
> buffering, enabling me to install SuSE 5.3, but this,
> coupled with slow pc performance as mentioned above,
> took me well over 4 hours to install 148 packages. So
> all in all, I'm in desperate need of help :)! (Linux
> newbie, yes I am! :))
>
> So, I apologize again if this is in the wrong place,
> and would you let me know if so, so I can fix it.
> Otherwise, I hope for prompt replies :)
>
> Thanks,
> Keith Snape
>
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