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On Saturday 27 July 2002 12:43 pm, Kevin D. McAllister wrote:
> You may not have your IDE tuned for optimum performance. I can't
> speak specifically to SCSI vs IDE. But there are some good resources
> for tuning IDE performance.
>
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v
>1.3/chap6sec74.html
>
> Good Luck
Wow. I have my swap partition (and just about everything else) on a
7200 rpm ATA/100 drive, and the system was still really slow. I
followed the advice on that page (and the hdparm man page) and I can't
believe the difference. It feels like I doubled my ram.
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