On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:04:37AM +0100, Mipam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently added a third ide harddrive to my i386 system.
> (running 1.4.3A).
> Cause of the very limited space in the small cover, it was physically
> struggeling to get it in there :-) but now, after all works
> again, my system is much slower after adding the third ide disk.
> 
> its like: wd0 is boot device, wd2 hosts the /home fs.
> wd1, the new disk is just there sitting at the moment.
> I'll attach the dmesg for wd* output. Any hints what i can do to speed things
> up again, exept for removing the new hd?

Don't you get any error messages from the kernel ?
What IDE controller do you have ?

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