[TriLUG] mandrake performance?

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On Friday September 05 2003 12:16 pm, Jim Priest wrote:
> Installed Mandrake 9.1 last night on my box - blew away Win2000. 
>....
> If I can speed it up I think I could leave it on there and move to
> Linux at home - I'm really impressed with the progress of Gnome/KDE!

Have you checked to see if your hard drives support DMA? I set both DMA 
and 32bit data I/O using hdparm at the tail end of /etc/rc.local

/sbin/hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/$device

where $device is one of the following
hda, hdb, hdc, hdd, hde, hdf, hdg, hdh