Re: harddisk too slow
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Rui Nóbrega wrote:
> I've installed Debian Woody on my laptop, an Acer Aspire 1601. After some
> configuring and player with boot parameters, all is working smoothly with
> the exception of disk access. It takes a long time to copy large files from
> diferent directories or partitions.
>
> I had the same problem on RedHat 7.0 and solved it by editing a hd
> configuration file on /etc. The file isn't there on Debian.
>
Assuming this is IDE if so install hdparm and run
"/sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hda"
See if that helps
Rus
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