-------- Original Message -------- From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [..........] Or are you saying only that autotune was added to the things done when choosing hard drive optimisations? I would suspect that there was some change made in the code that implements the function of "autotune" as previous use of that command did not cause [............] AFAIK appending autotune is the *only* thing done when selecting "hard drive optimizations" (none were set except DMA after I removed the appended line from LILO). file:/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/Documentation/ide.txt sez: "idex=autotune" : driver will attempt to tune interface speed to the fastest PIO mode supported, for all drives on this interface. Not fully supported by all chipset types, and quite likely to cause trouble with older/odd IDE drives. i.e. it is done by the kernel, see: file:/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/drivers/block/ide.c In 7.0/1 it was done with a line in .rc* that called hdparm - I just add: hdparm -c1u1d1k1 /dev/hda hdparm -c1d1k1 /dev/hdc # (for my cdrom) to rc.local, so it runs at boot.. -WBD
