Re: [Core2Test3] Installation - No Fedora Core CD

[Alan <alan clueserver org>]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 01:43, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:11:32PM -0700, Alan wrote:
> > I did not get a crash, just ungodly slowness with any storage device on
> > the PCMCIA slot.
> 
> That is what I would expect. PCMCIA is ISA bus without DMA support. While
> hdparm -u1 /dev/hdwhatever may make the box feel better it can't really
> improve on PCMCIA device performance.

But the problem is not there on Redhat 7.3.

There is slow and then there is SSSSLLLLOOOOOWWWWW.  (We are talking
hours to read a single CD!)

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