From: "Steve Kieu" <haiquy@yahoo.com>
To: kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange HD light with 2.2.19
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:22:32 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011120102232.69226.qmail@web10407.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFA0E1F.4010708@wanadoo.fr>
>
> is there a difference in disk performance running
> 2.4 and
> 2.2 on this machine ?
I did not perform any test ; but I _feel_that_ it is
the same or almost the same. I prefer 2.2.19 for that
machine as this one has only 16Mb RAM; and 2.4.12-ac2
is thrashing to death when only running netscape, but
2.2.19 is fine.
> i think 2.2 isn't properly setting the DMA mode of
> the PIIX3, you might want to try something like
> hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/hda
I will try tomorow when my friend is online ; we are
100Km away ... :-)
> or something like that.
> of course, if it breaks anything, it's not my fault
> (please do a "man hdparm" first...)
>
> François
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