Jack Malmostoso wrote:
As for the rest, check that DMA is activated on your hard drive. Which is
extremely slow anyway... I have an iBook so I know what I'm talking
about :)
Okay, as far as I can tell, the hard disk isn't the issue. I've run
hdparm -t and hdparm -T on a few machines and the n
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:57, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:42 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > You need a special star-shaped screw-drivers,
>
> A friend of mine needed T4 or T6 or something (the number is the size),
> you can pick them up for like a euro a piece in many stores.
At Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:42:00 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> been there, done that, on a last-gen tibook, and it is nowhere as adventursome
> as you would think.
>
> You need a special star-shaped screw-drivers, and there is some nice
> instruction manual on apple's web site.
Just agreeing. I re
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:50:11 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> been there, done that, on a last-gen tibook, and it is nowhere as
> adventursome as you would think.
Maybe I'm not as brave with hardware as I'm with software (i.e. running
experimental) ;)
I am anyway thinking about buying a new laptop t
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:00:55PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> >
> >>I
> >>have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the
> >>PowerBook if it would help speed it up...
> >
> >It sure wo
Jack Malmostoso wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
I
have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the
PowerBook if it would help speed it up...
It sure would. But be prepared to quite an adventure if you want to
replace your PB's HD on you
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:42 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> You need a special star-shaped screw-drivers,
A friend of mine needed T4 or T6 or something (the number is the size),
you can pick them up for like a euro a piece in many stores.
ifixit.com has instructions with pictures and required tools
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:02:16PM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
>
> > I
> > have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the
> > PowerBook if it would help speed it up...
>
> It sure would. But be prepared to quit
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> I
> have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the
> PowerBook if it would help speed it up...
It sure would. But be prepared to quite an adventure if you want to
replace your PB's HD on your own. Unfortunately
Jack Malmostoso wrote:
As for the rest, check that DMA is activated on your hard drive. Which is
extremely slow anyway... I have an iBook so I know what I'm talking
about :)
What is wrong with the hard disk? Is it the IDE controller or the hard
disk itself? I have a couple of laptop (2.5") ha
Jack Malmostoso wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:20:09 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
The kernel
is a custom 2.6.20.6 kernel with preemption installed (I note that
because it's not in the default powerpc kernel from etch)
Preemption on PPC is (was?) a bad bad idea.
Try using the Debian stock kerne
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:17 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
>
> The kernel is a custom 2.6.20.6 kernel with preemption installed (I
> note that because it's not in the default powerpc kernel from etch).
Which kind of preemption? CONFIG_PREEMPT was traditionally known to be
problematic on PPC, though
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:20:09 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> The kernel
> is a custom 2.6.20.6 kernel with preemption installed (I note that
> because it's not in the default powerpc kernel from etch)
Preemption on PPC is (was?) a bad bad idea.
Try using the Debian stock kernel for a while and see
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