I almost lost one of my biggest corporate customers because of the hdparm
settings. They are a computer reseller, and wish to ship all their
computers dual-boot.
I can't remember the exact type of boards, but installation failed on 10
computers. Major fsck up.
I made a new initscripts RPM that has the hdparm section commented out.
Now it's working perfectly.
Everyone agrees that I upload it? I didn't have the time to figure out pgp
yet. Do I upload it in distrib/updates-60?
Jean-Michel Dault
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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Axalon wrote:
> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 01:24:49 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Axalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit
>
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
>
> > Axalon wrote:
> > > Try this on that MVP3 board you should see vast improvements
> > >
> > > --
> > > # Optimisation of Hard drive.
> > > if [ -x /sbin/hdparm ];then
> > > LIST_HD=$(grep '^hd.*' /var/log/dmesg|\
> > > grep -ivE '(CD.*ROM|FLOPPY|TAPE|STATUS|DVD)'|cut -d: -f1|sort|uniq)
> > > for i in $LIST_HD;do
> > > action "Starting Hard Drive optimisations for $i" \
> > > hdparm -d1 -u1 -X66 /dev/$i
> > > #^ I get another 5mb vs. useing 33
> > > done
> > > fi
> > > --
> > >
> > > No resets no coruption
> > > Model=Maxtor 90576D4, FwRev=WAS8283C, on an atrend ATC-5220
> >
> > I'll give it a try, but I don't think the X66 will work: it is intended
> > for ATA/66, right ? Well the MVP3 (VT82C586B southbridge) only supports
> > UDMA/33, for ATA/66 I would need MVP4 (VT82C686 southbridge). At least
> > this is what the VIA docs say.
> > Besides, I'm pretty sure that the disk doesn't support it as well ...
> >
> > Thanks anyway.
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 74 Annemasse France
> > old Linux fan
>
> Right thats why i mentioned the 33 vs. 66, you mentioned the drive only
> supported the 33.
>
> This board has the VT82C586/B, but the drive will still be a limit.
>
> --
> Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 65).
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
> IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=64.
> I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
> Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
> Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586B Apollo ACPI (rev 16).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
> --
>
