de|ire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > so if a 5400 rpm is the fastest laptop drive available, what is the > rpm of the standard drive?
(I don't actually have an answer, but I strongly suspect that drives with a higher rotation speed [and better performance] will suck up noticably more battery life. It seems like for PC hard drives, 5400 and 7200 RPM are the standard options.) > has anyone played arond with kernel support for fast DMA on their > lappie? keen to know if i can get any better on my dell i8k. I've played with it some on mine (a Dell Latitude C600, not an Inspiron). I didn't notice any particular performance improvement from playing with the options; I also didn't notice the settings hdparm reported changing as I tweaked things, though the performance did. I also might have broken things, though I suspect the problem was more a hardware issue with the case not quite being structural enough. IMHO, playing around wasn't worth the effort at all. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
