FreeBSD Rocks!!! Except for Java :( Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20910] Ultra66 > You need to use hdparm to tweak your harddisks parameters. Be very careful > though. Most importantly, make sure you have a ATA66-compliant IDE cable. > I had machine with an ATA66 drive and the cable was only rated for ATA33. > I tweaked the drive with hdparm and got a little performance boost, but > when I rebooted, the filesystem was toast :) I later discovered the cable > problem when I threw FreeBSD on the machine and Free's kernel told me that > my cable was non-ATA66 compliant and that it was reverting my drive to > ATA33 mode :) FreeBSD rocks. > > Gabe > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:01:32PM -0500, Seth I. Bernsen wrote: > > Does anybody know, if I install RH6.2 with the latest updates, will I > > have support for Ultra66? Currently I'm running one of the newer > > unsupported kernels from kernel.org, but I'm having all kinds of problem > > with network protocol support. I'd like to go back to a supported > > kernel, but I need the Ultra66 support. > > > > -- > > Seth Bernsen > > Software Engineer > > United Defense > > Phone: 612-572-4993 > > Fax: 612-572-4858 > > http://www.udlp.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "I'm gonna hit ya, and you're gonna fall. > And I'm gonna look down, and I'm gonna laugh." > - Ren Hoek in "Sven Hoek" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org