Help - slow performance on a Toshiba laptop

[hank]

okay. are you running the 2 drives the 6 gb and 13 gb on the same system?
are you running a dule boot system?
just curious
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From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: Help - slow performance on a Toshiba laptop


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> at the risk of being helpful, hank delivered up the following on Fri, Feb
20, 2004 at 10:02:31PM -0800,
> *SNIP*
> > I am going to be putting slackware 9.1 on a amd 233 mhz 13 gig drive
with 64
> > megs ram once I get the 13 gig hd put in. should I have to change
anything
> > to get this thing up and running at max speed fore this slow of a
machine?
>
> Ideally, I'd use a 6 gb for the primary drive and the 13 gb for the
> secondary one.
> however, as you are unable to have that configuration, bare in mind that
> you will only get dma33 because those older processers didn't support
> anything faster and ata was still in it's infancy back then.
> if you need to roll your own kernel select only the newer ide/mfm/rll
> options and be sure to read the help for those before answering y or n
> or m.
> hth
>
>
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