[ale] hd is slow

Kevin Krumwiede krum at smyrnacable.net
Sun Apr 14 20:35:38 EDT 2002


During boot, do you see a message like 'assuming 33MHz system bus for
PIO modes, override with "idebus=xxx"'?  If so, add "idebus=xxx" to your
kernel options in lilo.conf.  I don't know how much difference it will
make.  Mine is set to 66MHz and I can't tell that it's any faster.

Krum


On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 14:26, stephen turner wrote:
> ive got an ata 100 hard disk and the bugger is only transfering 2.29 megs a sec? i hear people getting 18 or more, how do i speed this up? maybe its not set optimal
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