Re: Strange HD light with 2.2.19

[Steve Kieu]

> 
> is there a difference in disk performance running
> 2.4 and
> 2.2 on this machine ?

I did not perform any test ; but I _feel_that_ it is
the same or almost the same. I prefer 2.2.19 for that
machine as this one has only 16Mb RAM; and 2.4.12-ac2
is thrashing to death when only running netscape, but
2.2.19 is fine.

> i think 2.2 isn't properly setting the DMA mode of
> the PIIX3, you might want to try something like
> hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/hda

I will try tomorow when my friend is online ; we are
100Km away ... :-)

> or something like that.
> of course, if it breaks anything, it's not my fault
> (please do a "man hdparm" first...)
> 
> François

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