RE: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?
If the master is the 8gb drive I would imagine it is not ata100 and the 40
probably is ata100.
Is it possible that you are not using the correct type of cable and it is
dropping back to ata33 ?
Matt
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> From: Carl Fink [mailto:carl@fink.to]
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> Subject: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?
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> I'm puzzled. A few days ago I installed a new Maxtor
> DiamondMax Plus 40 GB hard drive on my system, replacing a
> fairly old 1 gig drive. I installed it as slave to my
> existing 8 gig drive, which holds Debian. I intended to use
> it for data (video files, etc.). I created a swap partition
> (128 MB) and a 20 gig ext2 partition, leaving the rest of the
> drive unused for later.
>
> Since booting with this setup, my system has been
> dramatically *slower* than before, particularly when reading
> from and/or writing to the new drive.
> Even things that I wouldn't expect to depend on drive speed,
> like redrawing of graphical elements in X, are something like
> four times slower than before.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion on why this would happen? Or
> where I can find more information?
>
> Thanks.
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