David Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i.e. dma wasn't turned on at all. > So as a newbie I follow a few leads on hd optimising among the few > options not listed as dangerous in man hdparm and settle on > # hdparm -c 1 -X udma2 > and transfer rate increased to about 2.8MB/s.
I have had this line in my bootscripts for years without any problems: /sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda The point here is that I never had the need to resort to fancier options like -X. Stefan Krah -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
