Hi together!

It's a long time ago I was last here

I' currently working with Linux because of my problems with my harddisk on my Thinkpad.

Hitachi drive fitness nest told me when running the longer fitness test that some sectors are damaged.

IBM told my at phone that when installing Linux (tried to run OpenSUSE 10 on my notebook) it is normal that the drive fitness test thinks there are sectors defect on my harddisk.
I don't think it's normal but you maybe know it better


Well, to the point:
I've got a Knoppix CD from "com!", a German PC magazine, and I've got a newer Knoppix I burnt yesterday with my PC, version 4.02 on CD is it.

The thining pause on my notebook is larger than that when using Knoppix 3.6.
I started the last CD with "knoppix26" to get Kernel 2.6.9 working.

When starting Knoppix 4.02, it works slowlier, though there's not more data on my CD, and the performance while reading from my USB harddisk is lots slowlier than with my Knoppix 3.6-com-CD.

I logged in as root, and typed "hdparm -v /dev/hda, and the parameter "using_dma = 1" tells me both system should work with DMA or Direct Memory Access =on.

Is that normal, a speed with a maximum of 5 Mbytes, rapidly sinking at about 1 MB per second?

Maybe is that because I've got no swap-partition in use?

Regards,

Thilo