Re: HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-28 Thread Rob Bochan
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:12 am, Nicolas MASSE wrote: > Try "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" and then retry to check the speed of your HD. > This activate the dma mode for your hard disk. If it doesn't work, maybe > the module for your ide chipset is not loaded. Check that with "dmesg". > > Nicolas. You

Re: HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-28 Thread Rob Bochan
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:12 am, Nicolas MASSE wrote: > Try "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" and then retry to check the speed of your HD. > This activate the dma mode for your hard disk. If it doesn't work, maybe > the module for your ide chipset is not loaded. Check that with "dmesg". > > Nicolas. You

Re: HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-28 Thread Nicolas MASSE
Le vendredi 27 Août 2004 18:31, Rob Bochan a écrit : > The test shows this: > # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 500 MB in 2.01 seconds = 248.76 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 14 MB in 3.20 seconds = 4.38 MB/sec > > I'd appreciate any advice, tips, etc.

Re: HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-28 Thread Nicolas MASSE
Le vendredi 27 Août 2004 18:31, Rob Bochan a écrit : > The test shows this: > # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 500 MB in 2.01 seconds = 248.76 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 14 MB in 3.20 seconds = 4.38 MB/sec > > I'd appreciate any advice, tips, etc.

HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-27 Thread Rob Bochan
This laptop is working well with Sid except for one, seemingly major, thing. Whenever there is any heavy disk reading or writing, for example scp'ing a decent sized file to or from another machine, it slows to a crawl. As far as I know, it's the original drive for the machine. Aside from replaci

HP Omnibook 6000 hard drive

2004-08-27 Thread Rob Bochan
This laptop is working well with Sid except for one, seemingly major, thing. Whenever there is any heavy disk reading or writing, for example scp'ing a decent sized file to or from another machine, it slows to a crawl. As far as I know, it's the original drive for the machine. Aside from replaci

HP OmniBook 6000

2001-06-07 Thread J. R. Westmoreland
I have an HP6000 omnibook that has all of its internal goodies working except the 3Comm network/modem card. I believe that is a PCI version of the 3c-ffem556b. Does anyone else have the same laptop and have you gotten the card to work? J.R. -- J.R. Westmoreland (W7JR) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: HP OmniBook 6000

2001-06-07 Thread Al Stone
Yup. I've got an OmniBook 6000 and an OmniBook 500, both running Debian potato (more or less). The modem is -- rather unfortunately -- a winmodem (I'm trying to get that fixed). The PCI LAN uses the 3c59x "Vortex" driver. This driver can be found in kernels >= 2.2.18, I believe (you may have to

Re: HP OmniBook 6000

2001-06-07 Thread Al Stone
Yup. I've got an OmniBook 6000 and an OmniBook 500, both running Debian potato (more or less). The modem is -- rather unfortunately -- a winmodem (I'm trying to get that fixed). The PCI LAN uses the 3c59x "Vortex" driver. This driver can be found in kernels >= 2.2.18, I believe (you may have to

HP OmniBook 6000

2001-06-07 Thread J. R. Westmoreland
I have an HP6000 omnibook that has all of its internal goodies working except the 3Comm network/modem card. I believe that is a PCI version of the 3c-ffem556b. Does anyone else have the same laptop and have you gotten the card to work? J.R. -- J.R. Westmoreland (W7JR) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

potato vanillla boot-floppies package cant make boot floppy on HP Omnibook 6000

2000-10-12 Thread Dave Williams @ Home
Two problems to mention: Firstly:- 2.2.16 boot-floppies and vanilla rescue/root image from latest potato disk image (reported as Linux 2.2.17 from Kernel-image- 2.2.17-2.2.17pre6-1) cannot make a boot floppy. I've tracked the problem down to utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c where the superformat

potato vanillla boot-floppies package cant make boot floppy on HP Omnibook 6000

2000-10-12 Thread Dave Williams @ Home
Two problems to mention: Firstly:- 2.2.16 boot-floppies and vanilla rescue/root image from latest potato disk image (reported as Linux 2.2.17 from Kernel-image- 2.2.17-2.2.17pre6-1) cannot make a boot floppy. I've tracked the problem down to utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c where the superforma