Hi,
I have been able to accelerate a little bit my Mandrake 8 and hence Win4lin by
passing to 32 bits access to mys IDE hard disk.
In fact, I have observed that MDK 8 uses by default the 16 bits access. To
check yours, query your hard disk using the following command:
hdparm -c /dev/hda (for the first ide disk).
If it indicates that the 16 bits mode is on, you can change it to 32 bits mode
using the following command:
hdparm -c 3 /dev/hda
This has considerably accelerated my disk access. The switch -c 3 is the most
compatible one, you can also check the switch -c 2 instead (it seems to only
work for some ide controllers).
I hope this helps someone.
Murat
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Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Institut Federatif de Recherche sur
les Dynamiques Economiques
IFREDE - E3i ( http://www.ifrede.org/ )
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