Help - slow performance on a Toshiba laptop

Garrett Klein kleins at iquest.net
Fri Feb 20 17:33:54 EST 2004


Try appending idebus=66 to your boot loader's configuration file, under the
apend= line.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: "Mike Keithley" <mkeithley at pobox.com>
Cc: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: Help - slow performance on a Toshiba laptop


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> My disks also tell me that DMA is not supported when I try to set
> it with hdparm. They used to support it several kernel upgrades
> ago. Each is a 40 GB disk, one Seagate and one Western Digital,
> and my CPU is a 1.4 GHz Athlon. I do not recognize any kernel
> compile options that might be at fault, and the hdparm output is
> not all that helpful.
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