Very slow disk access on a fresh daily install - Inspiron 8200 DELL Laptop.

[Sivan Green]

Hey People,

  I was wondering if any "official" (by dev people) tests were made
for installing on dell laptops - I have installed using a daily from
about 4 days ago, on my dell inspiron 8200; everything seems to work
perfectly, including the touchpad, the best screen reolution
subtracting the modprobe snd-oss-pcm thingy which needs be done
manually and the fight over preparing it for pptp cable broadband
access.

The highlight of this test is , an amazingly slow disk access, in
which disk access can be audioably traced to a single read/write each
every half a second , that's awful strange, and it breaks gnome to
practically unusable - namely, given firefox disk activity for example
it's barely firing up, GUI tend to respond very slowly. Might this be
a problem with cpu scaling frequency applet? Or some specific IDE
controller bug with the one this laptop is using?
The cpu freq monitor applet constantly switches between 1.2 to 1.8Ghz
of operation - although I have disabled in bios setup freq scaling
when on AC power, to enable it to run full speed when plugged in.
(e.g. 1.8GHz)

System Config:
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DELL INSPIRON 8200
1.8Ghz Intel Mobile Pentium IV
256MB DDR 233MHz
GeForece 4 32MB vga controller
40Gigs hitachi HD , 7200RPM ATA100
15" SXGA lcd screen
intel AC'97 sound card
softmodem by conexcent



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Best Regards,
     Sivan Green