Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:24:58 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Matthias Meyser <Matthias.Meyser@harz.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 Message-ID: <377BDCAA.D40738D8@3-cities.com> References: <87aetg6pae.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <19990701231458.A1204@xenetserver.harz.de>
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Matthias Meyser wrote: > > Hi Arcady > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 05:19:53PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > maxusers 4 > try incrasing this to 16 or 32 > > > controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0x90ff > > disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 > perhaps disabel LBA Mode (and reinstall ;) ) > an try to switch DMA on (frlags) I don't think that will help because 486's used IDE controllers on ISA cards. They don't even support PIO much less DMA. Most 486's will have problems with anything over 528MB unless LBA is turned on. There may be contollers out there that support PIO, which would improve his disk I/O but I wouldn't recognize the card if someone handed one to me. Kent > > CU > matthias > > -- > \\ // N N EEE TTT Matthias Meyser, Meyser@harz.de > \\ // eee NN N E T Gesellschaft fuer Informations- und > \X/ e e N N N EE T Kommunikationssysteme mbH > // \\ e ee N NN E T 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Burgstaetter Strasse 6 > // \\ eeee N N EEE T Telefon: +49-5323-94018 Fax: +49-5323-94011 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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