Re: Slow disks under linux

[Paul Makepeace]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> Are you using xinerama (i.e. so your monitors are spliced together into
> one display?)

No, it's KDE2 which seems to split them into separate desktops. The
mouse moves between them as though they're one but I can't drag windows
back & forth (no loss, really). The Matrox Windows drivers are much
better -- graphical arbitrary relative positioning of the 2nd monitor.

> E (still 0.15.5...)

Talking of E check out these bus modes:

# hdparm -i /dev/hda | tail -1
 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
#

Paul