Re: [ILUG] [slightly OT] IDE Speed on 486?

From: Niall O Broin (niall at domain magicgoeshere.com)
Date: Sat 27 May 2000 - 01:37:33 IST


On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 12:39:12AM +0100, Thomas Ribbrock wrote:
> Hi folks!
>

> dialup/masquerading/firewall box and also downloads mail - which seems to be
> slower than possible, as the hard drive doesn't keep up... sigh...).

I wouldn't blame your mail downloading slowness on the drive - a don't think
your modem is outrunning even the slowest drive, and even if it were,
files saved to disk are first saved in RAM so it would be the flusing
process that would be slower, rather than your email download. If you really
have a slower than before mail download, you'll have to look elsewhere for
the cause.

Regards,

Niall



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