On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:57, Patrick Lane wrote: > Any time there is any hard drive activity, my mouse will freeze up until > the hard drive stops being accessed. This has only happened since I've > downgraded to woody (reformatted). I do not have a slow computer. I'm > running a Athlon 1200, 1 GB of RAM, and UDMA 100 HDDs. I'm also using > kernel 2.4.17. Any ideas?
Try switching on DMA access on your ide bus. for i in a b c d; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done Kind Regards Crispin Wellington
