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!)