Armand, it would be nice to speed up the dial-up internet connection, but I was in fact refering to any other way to speed up Linux - hardware, kernel, process management, hard drive performance, etc. I use IDE drives. I know SCSI and RAID stuff is faster (and I can't wait until I upgrade to a full SCSI system (the ony things I use SCSI for is the CD drives, and for the scanner)). Do I need special hard drives for the ATA/RAID controllers? Or does ATA RAID work only with SCSI? (Total newbie on that end). On Saturday 17 February 2001 18:53, you wrote: > Rick Rosinski wrote: > > I don't mean to be long-winded, I just want to know if anybody had found > > any tricks that makes a noticable difference in the speed of linux > > When people ask this question what they usually mean is how do I speed > up my dial up internet connection. > > Isn't this what you really want? > > Otherwise if you think your computer is slow about churning through > about 1400 Mb's of data on your hard drive you could look into > ATA/RAID. There's a website out there about using two ATA/66 > controllers (cheap) which is something like 1.8 times as fast as a > single scsi. > > Armand > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Rick Rosinski http://rickrosinski.com rick@rickrosinski.com