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23rd October 2004, 11:26 PM
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cheap fast HDD
I installed fc2 on an old slow maxtor i had lying around, and now its the biggest source of frustration because it takes forever to do anything!
I have seen scsi drives on ebay for decent prices, but the controllers that are so expensive!
so my question is: can you use a u320 drive with a u160 controller? obviously i wont get the 320mb/sec bandwidth, but the bottleneck is going to be my pci interface anyway.
take it easy
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24th October 2004, 12:00 AM
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Try checking performance with a smaller window manager. I know Icewm is popular (I have used it a couple times and is very quick, try that). Is it data transfer or processing?
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24th October 2004, 12:06 AM
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i think that its data transfer.
whenever the hdd is accessed, everything goes real slow.
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24th October 2004, 01:05 AM
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Just out of curiosity, what Maxtor drive is it, and what are its general Specs? It may be more of a problem with other hardware being not as well supported under linux as it is a hard drive problem. Just a though.
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24th October 2004, 01:21 AM
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now its the biggest source of frustration because it takes forever to do anything!
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what are you pc specs? such as cpu, ram, video....i've use maxtor, wd, seagate, and other hd's without problems.
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24th October 2004, 01:39 AM
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my system is a
PIII 733
192 mb ram
64 mb video
windows xp is on a 20 gb quantum fireball and works fine.
The hard drive that i put linux on (9gb maxtor) used to be operated under xp and it was slow there too.
The reason i think that its the hard drive is because every time that i hear the thing grinding away, the system goes real slow.
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24th October 2004, 01:44 AM
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then you hd may be going bad.......firebal is made by maxtor and you can use the hd tools to check it.
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24th October 2004, 02:04 AM
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huh. that sucks.
does anyone know if newer scsi drives (u160 or u320) can be used with older (ultra 2 or u160) controllers?
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25th October 2004, 04:27 AM
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