Actually Charles I have. I later found out that I could not uncompress bzip or rar files if they managed to get over about 20meg. This got very depressing and I reinstalled 7.1 to make sure there was/is no problems. 7.1 worked flawlessly! I reinstalled 7.2 a number of times and in the end went to hdparm and enabled the options that 7.1 use to enable in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime. This FIXED all my problems. I'm not sure what the autotune parm in 7.2 does?? there is nothing in the start up scripts that use it (rgrep -r autotune *) so I'm not sure where its used....I'm setting off in an attempt to discover what and how.... Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:29:03AM +1000, tommiy wrote: > > I've finished installing 7.2 and wooo it looks nice but it appears to > > have a serious problem for me. > > > > Basically if I have any serious hd activity....like copying 2-300 meg on > > my hd or using bzip to compress stuff then it causes the serial port to > > have no access time. Basically the serial comms almost stops. If your > > sitting on the net then almost everything stops....ftp sessions go from > > 5.2k/s down to 8bytes/sec. When the disk activity stops then everything > > starts back up again. This didn't occur with 7.1 and its really > > unlivable with 7.2. > > > > Anyone have some idea before I shelve 7.2? > > > > Thanks > > > > Got your serial ports' IRQs set up correctly? > > -- > > -- C^2 > > No windows were crashed in the making of this email. > > Looking for fine software and/or web pages? > http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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