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SubjectRe: Very slow IDE performance
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 12:27:44PM -0400, Brian Perkins wrote:
> hdparm -T /dev/hda gives 24.09 MB/sec (seems reasonable to me)

> /proc/cpuinfo:
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 5
> model : 2
> model name : Pentium 75 - 200
> stepping : 6
> cpu MHz : 120.001623
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : yes
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
> bogomips : 47.82

Seems to be normal.

> FWIW, this machine is undeniably strange; the default RH6 boot disk
> (which uses loadlin.sys ) would cause the monitor to go into
> power-saving mode after loading the initrd.( I think it would continue
> to boot actually, but the install process is sort of difficult this
> way). Creating a lilo based boot disk worked fine.

Did you try disabling APM?

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Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Wuppertal, FRG
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