Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 03:23:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 03:23:42 -0500 Received: from tmhoyle.gotadsl.co.uk ([195.149.46.162]:51727 "EHLO mail.cvsnt.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 03:23:27 -0500 Mailbox-Line: From tmh@nothing-on.tv Tue Mar 12 08:23:24 2002 Message-ID: <3C8DBAB2.9050100@nothing-on.tv> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:22:10 +0000 From: Tony Hoyle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020214 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Keys Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dog slow IDE In-Reply-To: <3C8CB3EB.8070704@nothing-on.tv> <20020312072348.WUOR1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@there> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adam Keys wrote: > Are they dog slow after a *cold* start? My solution to slow Maxtor drives > was to fix the CPU fans in my machine and put the main drive in a bay cooler. > Heck, the machine won't even boot after a cold start.... depending on the ambient temperature it can take anything from a few seconds to a few minutes to 'warm up'. I think this will be my last Asus board for a while... Tony -- "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal values." -- Norton SystemWorks 2002 Manual tmh@nothing-on.tv http://www.nothing-on.tv - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/