Hello

I'm own a old toshiba laptop, with the following specs.:
Satellite 110ct
pentium 100 MHz
40 MB ram
40 GB hard disk
The hd was originaly about 800MB, but I replaced it with a 40GB. Had to make a 1023 Cylinder /boot partition. Because of the bios. The hd seems a bit slow, so my questions are!!!
1 does the new hd conflict in any way with the rest of the system,making the overall performance slower? (it was faster with old hd and win 95)
2 in the laptop bios, there is option ide or enhanced ide, system wont boot when enhanced is selected, why ?
3

(the 40GB hd is a hitachi ata133, im runnig Debian sarge,
kernel 2.4.27-2-586tsc)

Lasse

Try running hdparm -Tt /dev/hda and see how the drive's performing.

I've had excellent success with this program when using older hardware. This article:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/...29/hdparm.html

Is very informative regarding this subject.

ran the hdparm command a few timw and
cache reads: 60MB/sec
buffered disk: 3MB/sec
seems to be ok ?

looking into hdparm man now
thanks buddy

Looks like some tweaking is in order. My drive (old) is running
173.13 and 22.88 respectively. As a precaution, I would suggest having a boot / rescue disk handy just in case.
Good luck, and please post results, I'm sure it will help others. (And I'm curious)

would I need the edd module
to get dma working ?

Lasse

If I remember correctly edd is a bios feature. Not sure what if any connection edd has to dma, but hopefully someone with more hardware knowledge can answer that.