Re: Support for UMC8673
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 16:02, Chris Owen wrote:
> Hi there, wonder if anyone can help me out with this.
>
> I installed Debian on an old laptop, found that hard disk access is
> unusably slow, apparently this is because my disk controller, a UMC8673,
> is not supported by the kernel. I have kernel 2.2.20.
>
> Any internet search on this points towards Pauline Middelink's homepage
> (http://www.polyware.nl/~middelink/En/hob-oss.html) where there is a
> kernel patch. However I can't figure out how to use this patch. I have
> emailed Pauline but she hasn't replied. Surely to use a patch like this
> I have to know which specific kernel version it is for, and this info
> doesn't seem to be given??
>From the timestamps, the patch is more than 6 years old, which seems
to be in the 2.0.30 days. I wouldn't try it on a 2.2.20 kernel.
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