On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jay Strauss wrote: > I'm very unfamiliar with options for speeding up hard drive access. > What might Knoppix be setting (and how would I look for it), that it's > getting 100% better drive performance than a plain jane Sarge install? The usual culprit is DMA. (Or lack of it in your case) What does hdparm /dev/hda give under each OS? You can use hdparm to enable DMA, but this doesn't always work - the real solution is to work out what type of IDE controller you have and make sure it's compiled into your kernel. Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
