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Article #621097Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 07:07
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 07:07
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On Tue, 2018-03-06, Mike Spencer wrote: ... > Digressing here, the IBM P4 has an odd quirk. It came with an IDE HD > but has mobo plugs for 2 SATA drives. After a HD failure, I used one > mobo plug for a new SATA drive. Works but there's something weird > with the handling of large (say, 1G+) transfers. CPU bogs down enough > to make the (Linux K2.4, X twm but no desktop) console unresponsive > for many seconds at a time. Never managed to figure it out. > And (unrelated to the HD?) playing a DVD (with box not connected to > the net) retards the clock so after watching a movie, the clock is > several hundred seconds slow. The log files in /var/log/ may provide a clue ... perhaps the kernel is spewing out messages about how it ran into trouble and had to fall back to more primitive I/O mechanisms, and/or about missing interrupts, and so on. Perhaps an upgrade would help. Kernel 2.4.x sounds more than ten years old. Happily, you can still get a twm-based desktop with current Linux distributions. On the other hand, I adopted SATA very late, and never used early SATA motherboards; perhaps they were buggy. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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