On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > I've been having trouble using hdparm to speed up one of my disks. > > I suspect it's because I had to disable the disk in my BIOS so the > BIOS wouldn't hang when booting. > > Has anyone seen this problem or does anyone know how to fix it? > Would the "-ide" version of the 2.2.19 kernel packge help with this?
Most likely yes. I have a C500 with a 60gb Maxtor drive attached on hdd, that the BIOS pukes on as well. Somewhere around 2-3 meg a second without the IDE patch.. Running 2.2.20 with ide patches, does 18-19 meg/sec. Still pathetically slow, but that's because it's a pathetically slow 5400rpm drive. =) Mike
