Scandisk

[Rodney Kanno]

Hi Warren,

I tried upgrading to the 2.4.7 kernel. I'm using Mandrake 8.0 and I used the
software manager to do the upgrade, well it upgraded the kernel and when I
re-booted, I got quite a few error messages saying that modules could not be
be found. I got to log in and things seemed to run normally. (ex. KDE took
like 10 seconds to load instead of a minute). How am I supposed to get all
those modules? Booting up with the 2.4.3 kernel was okay, do I have to
re-create the modules or something?

Thanks,
Rodney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: Scandisk


> Your different partitions would have different speeds because the fastest
> portion of all hard disks is at the beginning of the drive.  Hard disks
> steadily become slower as you get near the end, some even half the speed.
> Search for "HDTACH" on Google and you'll find graphs of this performance
> behavior of disks.
>
> Usually "hdparm -t /dev/hda" testing only the beginning of the drive is
> sufficient as a speed test.  If you are trying to stress test the entire
> hard drive for defects, there are better utilities out there for doing
this.
> I'll look around for tools that do this tonight.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rodney Kanno" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 1:28 AM
> Subject: [luau] Re: Scandisk
>
>
> > Hi Warren,
> >
> > Here is the output of uname -a
> >
> > Linux I8L1Y7 2.4.3-20mdk #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
> >
> > I noticed last night when I booted up into Windows, that everything
seemed
> to
> > be fine. Windows didn't seem to be any slower than normal. Would the
> > motherboard and or cooling still be suspect?
> >
> > I tried doing multiple tests on hda, hda5 and hda7. hda gave me ther
same
> > results each time I tested it. however hda5 and hda7 varied. For one
> instead
> > of being able to transfer 64MB in 2.89 seconds at 22.15MB/sec like hda,
it
> > ranged between 3.20 - 3.59 seconds and the rate of transfer 17.83 -
> 20MB/sec.
> > I will check the cooling and the fic website for any updates tonight.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rodney
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hda5:
> > > >  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.20 seconds = 20.00 MB/sec
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hda6:
> > > >  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.59 seconds = 17.83 MB/sec
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hda7:
> > > >  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.59 seconds = 17.83 MB/sec
> > > >
> > > > DMA is enabled.
> > > > Motherboard is 1stMainboard SD11 www.fic.com.tw
> > > >
> > > > Let me know if you need anymore info.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Rodney
> > >
>
>
>
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