Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb kent E. um 02:05: > hello to all.... > > i mount a new slave hard disk with fat32 format ... i decided to use > this kind of fileFormat so that i could use it in other workstations > running M$.. > > now as i noticed .. my pc became a little bit slower than before so i > just edited my /etc/fstab and remove the newly added line .. and > everything is now back to normal... > > is there any workaround in this kind of situation? > > tia Put the second harddisk on the second IDE controller as master and not as slave on the primary controller. Maybe that will help, especially when the additional disk is an old one with slow transfer rates / IDE bus capability. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
