On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:12, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > 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. it is already master on the second IDE contrlr and also have the CDROM on the slave side ... i only have 1 master IDE on the primary conroller > Maybe that will help, especially > when the additional disk is an old one with slow transfer rates / IDE > bus capability. when i mounted them it looks like this... ========== /dev/hdc5 on /mnt/hddata type vfat (rw) /dev/hdc3 on /mnt/hdinstallers type vfat (rw) ========== but if i will access the /mnt/hddata ... its read only .. but the /mnt/hdinstallers ... i can reae/write ... > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany > PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 > PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653 - kent c. emia -
