hard drive help

* Chase Granberry (c.r.granberry@student.tcu.edu) wrote:
> well...i just installed slackware 8 and im having problems with my hard
> drive. whenever my computer accesses the hardrive it slows performance
> significatly...causing the audio and graphics to slow down extremely:(
> i've compiled and installed kernel 2.4.5 but with no luck. any advice
> would be appreciated.

man hdparm


hth,
Gontran