Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Brian Perkins wrote:
> I'm on the "Linux Support Givaway" list, and have been contacted with
> a rather bizarre problem.
>
> She was trying to install RedHat 6 (with kernel 2.2.6, I suppose) on
> an Olivetti Pentium 120, and the Redhat boot disk wasn't working.
> After fixing this problem, she discovered that her performance was
> extremely poor (it took 20 minutes to change the wallpaper) .
>
> The amount of RAM the kernel found was normal, the bogomips value at
> boot was sane (56 or so), and it doesn't thrash, it just takes forever to
> perform any disk activity ( the hdd light is on constantly but it
> isn't constantly seeking).
>
> I had her do hdparm -t , which gave a transfer rate of .38 Megs per
> second. Any ideas on what could cause this? Unfortunately, I don't
> have any information about the chipset and such, though I do have the
> output of hdparm -i:
>
>
> Model=M1614TA,FwRev=8D-44-21,SerialNo=04013855
> Config={HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSecFixedDTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5%}
> RawCHS=2114/16/63,TrkSize=0,SectSize=0,ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=3(DualPortCache),BuffSize=64kB,MaxMultSect=16,MultSect=off
> DblWordIO=no,maxPIO=2(fast),DMA=yes,maxDMA=2(fast)
> CurCHS=528/64/63,CurSects= -2038431712,LBA=yes,LBASects=2131584
> tDMA={min:120,rec:120},DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 mword0 mword1
> *mword2
> IORDY=yes,tPIO={min:370,w/IORDY:120},PIO modes: mode3 mode4
>
>
>
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> Brian Perkins bperkins@netspace.org
>
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