Be careful about this option. I enabled it, and after an ungraceful shutdown my
disk was hashed.
I think this is actually setting up a cache buffer for the disk, and if not
purged correctly before shutdown, leaves the disk flibberdegibbed.
--
Carl A. Cook
quantumATaugustmailDOTcom
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you...
If you don't bet you can't win.
M Thompson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I went to the List Archives, but keep getting the message that it is
> temporarily offline...
>
> I just installed Mandrake 7.0-2 yesterday...I was using 6.1 until then.
> (BTW - The graphical installer is the best I've seen yet...I've installed
> RH6.1, COL2.3, SuSE6.3, & MDK7.0-2)
>
> While installing Mdk7, I told it to enable the "Hard drive optimisation." I
> have two hard drives connected to my PCI Promise Ultra66 IDE controller
> card. How do I enable the optimisations for only one hard drive (/dev/hde)?
> I believe I need to edit rc.sysinit, but I'm not sure what modifications
> need made.
>
> Thanks everyone,
> Matt
>
> Additional Info:
> /dev/hde = Quantum 18 GB hard drive (works great with optimisation)
> /dev/hdg = Western Digital 1.5 GB drive (very flaky - I need to disable
> optimisation for this drive because Linux can't even access the drive with
> the optimisations enabled)
>
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