I'm puzzled. A few days ago I installed a new Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB hard drive on my system, replacing a fairly old 1 gig drive. I installed it as slave to my existing 8 gig drive, which holds Debian. I intended to use it for data (video files, etc.). I created a swap partition (128 MB) and a 20 gig ext2 partition, leaving the rest of the drive unused for later.
Since booting with this setup, my system has been dramatically *slower* than before, particularly when reading from and/or writing to the new drive. Even things that I wouldn't expect to depend on drive speed, like redrawing of graphical elements in X, are something like four times slower than before. Does anyone have a suggestion on why this would happen? Or where I can find more information? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
