Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

[Robert G. Hays]

Well, we know what the drive can do; at least, At Least!, so I am left 
suspecting that the Gentoo kernel does not have the best setup for the 
mobo, --or-- has something in there for safety that has the effect of 
slowing the throughput down; make [ menuconfig | xmewnuconfig ] to fix, 
or maybe just [ less | joe | nano | kate | etc ] /usr/src/linux/.config 
to look (& maybe fix by hand... I've done several of these myself.  (& 
Ok, which way did you -think- I meant a.l.a.l ? ;) ) )

If you go the make 'config route, *do* by all means read all the help 
you can find in there before changing thins; you cwill probably find 
something that interacts with something else that you've already done 
that makes "what you've already done" irrelevant or -wrong-, so read all 
through the [deleted] thing before making changes.  Itsa drag, yeah, but 
it does make things like kernels more safely.

We both know its gotta be in there somewhere, right?
rgh.
Followed by the inevitable compile, if you _do_ find something.
Alexander Veit wrote:
Robert G. Hays wrote:
 

In the Gentoo manual, in the early stages, it mentions -tT; nearby & 
below, it mentions another hdparm line to speed things up.  
Did you try that line?
   

I've tried it. The result is 19.11 MB/sec.
But why are the values posted before so different? hdparm -vid /dev/hda only
reports differences in the drive geometry.
Alex
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