Subject: Re: slow IDE in 1.4.1
To: static <static@yooniks.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/25/1999 18:25:02
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:39:37AM -0500, static wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	I have an old 486DX25 with two HDs - a 80mb Western Digital and a
> Seagate 100mb (both IDE). The WD drive works fine in normal speed, but the
> Seagate is barely usable because it is so slow. Formatting takes forever
> on that drive, and using it causes the system to go slow (it is my /usr).
> I'm currently running 1.3.2 on that machine because of that, and recently
> tried a 1.4N kernel and got the same problems.
> 
> What's going on here?

Do you get 'lost interrupt' messages for this disk ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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