[ILUG] Confused mount ?

[Fergal Daly]

On Monday 12 November 2001 12:17, Niall O Broin wrote:
> P.S. Interactive response on my box suffers when I do such a dd. I've an
> idea it's IDE related. Any more ideas ?

try

hdparm /dev/someidedisk

you should be in 32bit mode and using DMA. This can be set with

hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/someidedisk

there are more advanced settings but they can be dangerous apparently,

Fergal