[Hudlug] SCSI drives vs EIDE for Crimbo

[Mark Anderson]

Shak wrote:
> Hiyas,
> 
> Im having IDE problems at the moment, I have endless bugs with my hard disks and CD-RW such as when Im using them heavily (such as copying data from one disk to the other) my system is liable to go very slowly. Do you reckon its worth trying some rounded cables?

Do you get any messages about DMA during boot?

hdparm -d /dev/hda should tell you if a device is using DMA mode. If the 
cables are not up to the job, they'll cause errors and DMA will be disabled.

Cheers

Mark
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