Help - slow performance on a Toshiba laptop

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Holy cow!

I found a setting for my chip set, which I discovered with 'cat
/proc/pci', and that raised my HD speed from about 3.5 MB/sec to
about 44 MB/sec. That's a factor of about 12 or 13 increase!

I'm a new man!

Chuck

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> YOu both might want to check carefully under the enhanced itde,rll
> blah,blah controller section for parametres specific to your mother
> boards chip set.  For instance quite a few of my athlon systems use
> the via chip set which when enabled makes a major difference in
> performance.  I believe there are toshiba settings as well but I'm not
> sure off hand.  You could also check over your dmesg closely to see if
> it gives you any clews to hardware in the system you may not have
> optimizations turned on for.
>
>   Kirk
>
>

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