On 05/23/2012 12:20 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/05/22 22:43 (GMT+0200) madworm_de.opensuse@spitzenpfeil.org composed:
Gunnar wrote:
My windows disk is a SATA disk, my Linux disk are one "old" disk that I have used for a long time. :-))
Time to get a new(er) disk for linux then.
There's no excuse for a Seagate 340G PATA HD to be less than 15% of the speed of a SATA HD. It should be good for between 70% and 100% of SATA speed, depending on the actual speed of the SATA device compared to.
No wonder your system is in an unusable state with such a thing.
Clearly it's unusually slow, but a newer HD isn't necessarily going to help much if anything at all.
Well, a new disk would (should) be SATA. That would probably also mean different controller / different driver. And if his SATA disks are as fast as they should be is easy to find out if he runs the hdparm command on his windows disk. If he doesn't already use an 80pin cable and has one to test that is fine. But I wouldn't buy one. Personally I consider any PATA harddisk as "end of life". Unless he is very short on cash I don't think it is worth the trouble with that device. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org