-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Holy cow! I found a setting for my chip set, which I discovered with 'cat /proc/pci', and that raised my HD speed from about 3.5 MB/sec to about 44 MB/sec. That's a factor of about 12 or 13 increase! I'm a new man! Chuck On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Kirk Reiser wrote: > YOu both might want to check carefully under the enhanced itde,rll > blah,blah controller section for parametres specific to your mother > boards chip set. For instance quite a few of my athlon systems use > the via chip set which when enabled makes a major difference in > performance. I believe there are toshiba settings as well but I'm not > sure off hand. You could also check over your dmesg closely to see if > it gives you any clews to hardware in the system you may not have > optimizations turned on for. > > Kirk > > - -- The Moon is New In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates. My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQDYZHzVdG8M9x9tGAQJB7wQAsgDYc4jjcEYJzmf0K5VenFF9n2HadIIN ODL+8XewYMSXbLwVyBmCl4s3OrJZJJbbuex8VVd9nL2SIilpyRJX+7PII3MGFsQt 093UglnzNmXsKuFfcwAYaOnCCPTL6ST7MPokTD5g0y2G9u0w0V5ovg0at7lRri4c ZT6IIoBxa9Y= =68Vq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----