Extreme Slowdown 3053
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:06:22 -0800, Digi staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Should be OK. My desktop's board has a
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP2A IDE (rev a3)
and I haven't seen any problems with it yet.
Hmm. ISTR seeing reports of some problems with 2.6.8 (or was that 2.6.9?) and CD-burning, and there might be some weird side cases with some chipsets that were fixed in the latest kernels. It might be worthwhile to try 2.6.10 and see if the problem goes away.
Peter T. Breuer They vary, Peter. On my RHEL 3 ES system, top looks like this: 08:02:03 up 35 days, 16:18, 3 users, load average: 4.24, 4.28, 4.20 129...
I've developed a new form of client-based, secure 'Web Memory' that uses the JAVA or dotNET VM to launch a 'terminate and stay resident' program fragment that maintains persistence between web...
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This should also be OK, although for some reason my nForce IDE chipset uses UDMA-4 by default on my disks. It might be worthwhile to try forcing it to UDMA-4 with "hdparm -X udma4dev-hda", or it might not. I'd try the 2.6.10 and SMART paths first though.
The package is actually called "smartmontools". My bad. It's almost certainly on your distro CDs. If it isn't, sourceforge.net has it. HTH, let us know how you get on.
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