okay. are you running the 2 drives the 6 gb and 13 gb on the same system? are you running a dule boot system? just curious thanks to call me directly click this url. http://fwd.pulver.com/callme.php?userid=91013 email hank at hanksmith.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:50 PM Subject: Re: Help - slow performance on a Toshiba laptop > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > at the risk of being helpful, hank delivered up the following on Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:02:31PM -0800, > *SNIP* > > I am going to be putting slackware 9.1 on a amd 233 mhz 13 gig drive with 64 > > megs ram once I get the 13 gig hd put in. should I have to change anything > > to get this thing up and running at max speed fore this slow of a machine? > > Ideally, I'd use a 6 gb for the primary drive and the 13 gb for the > secondary one. > however, as you are unable to have that configuration, bare in mind that > you will only get dma33 because those older processers didn't support > anything faster and ata was still in it's infancy back then. > if you need to roll your own kernel select only the newer ide/mfm/rll > options and be sure to read the help for those before answering y or n > or m. > hth > > > - -- > Shaun Oliver > > > "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." > email: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au > WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/ > IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 > IRCNICK: blindman > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQFANv/O67hYtcFGIIcRAhGeAJ4k3lWy+wCXgP9U3pQJ2VucJcBTMACdHrEt > 38tgOmebJ9ZECU98L+ESquY= > =LELe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
