On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:48:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Wow, when I first read this I thought it was Ben posting.
Well, everyone can't be a Debian person. How could we maintain
our superior elitism?
> > - disable all of the "RAM/ROM shadowing" options you can.
> linux doesn't like these?
Long ago you were encouraged to turn them off. I think it was a
matter of letting the OS worry about how to make things efficient
more than it causing a conflict. I just keep using the same
settings for historical reasons.
> > - Set the printer port for IRQ7 epp (as opposed to ecp).
> no linux ecp?
Everything I have read says that ECP mode is slapped together and
that EPP is the most reliable (documented) mode. In particular
the author of the Zip drive modules swears by EPP.
> > - Set your drives to use LBA (Linux Block Addressing)
> actually it's Logical Block Addressing, but close enough.
Actually I meant to write Linear Block Addressing, but the idea
is still correct whatever LBA really means. (Linux? Where did I
get that?)
--
Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
