[plug] Celeron vs Duron - and a Linux question

[Trevor Phillips]

Christian wrote:
> 
> Not 100% sure about this but I had this problem when I got a new system
> a few years ago (before 2.2 was released).  Someone suggested that the
> IDE drive wasn't set up properly (UDMA?) so I tried 2.1.131 (the latest
> dev kernel at the time) and it fixed the problem beautifully.  All 2.2
> kernels were fine too -- very smooth.  Anyway, since what you describe
> sounds similar to the problem I had, perhaps either your kernel isn't
> configured properly or a more recent kernel may support the hardware
> better and give better performance?  Once again, hope this helps.

More recent kernel? Can't get much more recent than 2.4.0. -_^ (Yes, I know
2.4.1 is out now...)

I'll try Matt's suggestion (after RTFMing), and try fiddling with UDMA
settings. This is the first time I've really been UDMA/66 capable, and I
haven't experimented much yet...

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