RE: RedHat 6.1 on DS10 with IDE via FTP too slow

["Greg Lindahl" <glindahl hpti com>]

> > Thanks to those earlier responses to what I originally thought a IDE
> > and/or network problem.  The installation program proceeds at an slow
> > speed until the package installation at which point it crawls with an
> > estimated completion time of 34,000 hours ( that's 34 thousand ).  This
> > ftp is between two DS10s with hardware set to 100Mbit Full Duplex ( set
> > ew*0 FastFD in SRM )

What you set SRM variables to doesn't affect Linux. Which ethernet driver is
Linux using, de4x5 or tulip? If you get incorrect autonegotiation, you'll
get constant collisions.

-- g