On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 15:20, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > Greetings > > I have access to a few Pentium4 machines where I administer Debian. > > They all suffer from the same problem, at boot time the harddisk is not > set to use > UDMA by default and thus get looooow performance. > By hdparm -d 1 one can fix this. > > The kernel is of course compiled with the flag USE_DMA_BY_DEFAULT set, > and it works nicely on > another bunch of Athlon machines I run. > > By the way, the P4's all have Intel motherboards, of varying models, > D850MV, D850GB etc. > > Any pointers appreciated,
Perhaps its a bug in the kernel. Stick hdparm -d 1 commands in your startup. apt-get install hwtools, then edit /etc/init.d/hwtools. Make sure its symlinked in /etc/rc2.d Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]