Re: General jerkiness/pausing of system..
wells oliver said:
> I just installed Debian 3.0 on my AMD Athlon 1ghz system and am having
> some weird issues. I'm using the 2.4.18-k7 kernel from the packages.
>
> The system will pause occaisionally; it seems jerky. Just for a few
> seconds here, 10 seconds there, but it's thoroughly irritating and
> baffling.
>
> I had shadow RAM turned on during install, but it's off now.
sounds like IDE DMA is not on, run hdparm to check to see if it's
on(I don't use hdparm much so don't know the option, check the manpage)
nate
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