On Sat, 29 May 2004 12:21, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > This operation took 3 hours to complete. > > This is obviously unacceptable! > Have you _any_ idea why?
More thoughts. (I know Our Emily disapproves of following up to ones own postings) a) Antique, slow disc? what do:- hdparm -T /dev/hdX have to say. X := actual letter hdparm -t /dev/hdX have to say. X := actual letter have to say? b) DMA on? hdparm -d /dev/hdX have to say. X := actual letter You can turn it on with:- hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX have to say. X := actual letter for those willing and able 'man hdparm' is actually a pretty good manual page. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
