Prashant,
I have a feeling that your harddrive does not support DMA (Direct Memory Access) which to be quite frank is very odd. Most harddrives from my understanding do support DMA. As far as your concerns about not having proper drivers for your harddrive are highly unlikely. Kernel 2.4.xx covers most of them....i have tried linux on some really beaten down boxes but never had to worry about harddrive drivers. Thanks for shareing that oreillynetwork link.
Vijay Avarachen
Prashant Verma wrote:
Hi, I recently acquired a new Compaq D380MX pc, and was able to successfully install Mandrake 9.0 on it. All was not well however, as I discovered that my programs took a huge amount of time to build (static library create time) and link. On investigating further(read "on reading http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html"), the results were as follows... $>hdparm -Tt /dev/hda gives : /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.54 seconds =237.04 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 24.14 seconds = 2.65 MB/secNext Step was to try: hdparm -c1d1X33 /dev/hda This led to a very minor improvement, ie the buffered disk read rate went up to 4.5 MB/sec. An error message with this command:"HDIO_SETDMA_FAILED:operation not permitted" I think (but I'm a newbie in such matters, don't go by what I think) that I don't have the proper drivers, and Compaq's site is silent on this matter. On searching for the hardware types, I got the following information about the hard drive: HD 80 GB 5400 MSR38. This is where I am currently. Any inputs are most welcome and awaited :-) Thanks, -Prashant __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
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