Scandisk

[Rodney Kanno]

Hi Warren,

I dunno if my last reply came though..I don't see it. But anyway, t seems 
like the problem i'm having has something to do with my network. For some odd 
reason, when I disable the network, Linux runs fine, as soon as I enable it, 
Linux runs sloow again (my 200mhz runs faster).  Any ideas/suggestions?

thanks,
Rodney


On Wednesday 19 September 2001 18:44, you wrote:
> 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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