Actually, if you read the web page that was just sent out, they include another option
that I missed in the man page:
-c3
This turns on 32-bit with sync. I was able to squeeze another 4-5mb/sec out of my
cache. I seem to have hit the limit on my harddrive at 16.45, but with this on I hit
it every time.
Cory
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:24:17PM -0800, Michael Smith wrote:
> man hdparm.
>
> Seiously though, a good line to use is "hdparm -q -c1 -q -A1 -q -m16 -q
> -d1 /dev/hdx" At least, that was the subject of a discussion on this
> list awhile back. That's what mandrake does if you tell it to "use disk
> optimizations" in installation. I've had some problems with this on
> lesser machines, but on my ata66 T-bird box, it makes the drive go about
> 5 times faster. Yummmm.....
>
> Bob Crandell wrote:
>
> > I've heard this stuff is tweak-able. How do I? Where do I
> > start?
> >
>
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