One more piece of information: I am following the linux-thinkpad mailing list and noticed the following mail:
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 17:32:03 -0400 From: Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ltp] slow kernel loading On Saturday 08 May 2004 04:19 pm, Wolf Wiegand wrote: > Sebastian Wegener wrote: > > but when booting linux, the loading of the kernel image take quite a long > > time > > Are you using lilo? Putting a line saying 'compact' into lilo.conf > worked for me. > Yes, this should be the solution. Put it in the global options section at the beginning of the file. Don't forget to run lilo as root after making the edit. In case you care why this works I'll offer the following. LILO makes a read request for each sector that contains part of the kernel. On some drives, this can be very slow, so compact causes the separate read requests to be combined into one when the sectors are adjacent to each other on the disk. For even more info, see man lilo.conf The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad So I don't know if the compact option does help on USB HDDs as well... Just FYI, Heiko -- * WARNING! The USB documentation is downright evil. Most of it * is just crap, written by a committee. You're better off ignoring * most of it, the important stuff is: [...] -- 2.4.24's drivers/usb/host/uhci.c (full ack!) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
