Hi, I'm jumping into the middle of this, but thought you may not know this: at the Boot prompt, type "linux idebus=66". (w/o quotes) Sometimes I start this way, but I really don't notice much difference in performance. YMMV. TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043 On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Abe wrote: > Hey, if you tell me how to do that I will gladly post my numbers. I've got a > UDMA 66 drive and the boot up claims it is using 33mhz system bus for it but I > don't know how to get solid numbers. This is neat. I'm really enjoying the > multitude of conversations going on in teh list these days. Learning as lot > too. Thanks everybody! > > > Abe > > > > >===== Original Message From Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== > >On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > >>Hmmmmmmmm...it took mine 43 seconds to come up. > >> > >>On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Patti Wavinak wrote: > >> > >>> I hate to disappoint you or maybe I am just lucky -- I have Star Office > >>> 5.2 in Linux with 2.2.16 kernel a PII 450 processor and 256M of memory. I > >>> just timed how long it took to bring it up -- less than 3 seconds after I > >>> clicked on the icon. I'll stick with Star Office but that's jmho. ;-) > > > >From an article I just read, the speed of the harddisk and throughput of > >the IDE/SCSI controller contributes a tremendous lot to the speed of > >loading of this package. Compare those, just for fun, ok? :) > > > >Paul > > > >-- > >In a world without walls and fences > >who needs windows or gates? > > > >http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 > > -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- > > Jesus saves, > Allah forgives, > Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. --
