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From: Jean-Louis Debert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] passing hdparm parameters in LILO
> Tom Berger wrote:
> >
> > On 19-Jan-2000 Hoyt wrote:
> > > I recall reading somewhere that the hdparm parameters can be passed in
> > > LILO.
> > > This would certainly help my old, slow drives during the boot process.
> > > Is
> > > this possible, or was someone just daydreaming out loud?
> > >
> > > Hoyt
> >
> > I use rc.local for this. I don't think that this is possible via LiLo
> > since hdparm is a program and can't therefore be started before the
system
> > comes up.
>
> Correct. You can't pass parameters to _hdparm_ via lilo.
> However, you can pass parameters to _the driver_ via the command line,
> i.e. with "append=" in lilo.conf
> There are quite a number of parameters that can be passed to the _ide_
> driver. Look into /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt
> or /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/ide.c for more info (file names may be
> not completely correct, I'm shooting from the hip :-)
> As to SCSI drives, it would probably depend on which driver ...
>
Thank you both. The appropiate append commands are idex=autotune and
hdx=autotune.Plus the docs show a few commands that allow Linux to ignore
problematic BIOS info or ide cards. Very interesting. I will whip something
up in the next week and sent it to mandrakeuser.org
Hoyt
