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From: M Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: [expert] "Hard drive optimisation" for only 1 of my 2 HD's?
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> 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.
>
See http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/articles.html and look at the hard drive
article about using hdparm and lilo. I believe that you want the -X66
command for hdparm (-X34 for ATA33 drives IIRC --- didn't work on my
machine). I had no Ultra66 drives and could not test it. The hdparm command
as used in Mandrake are in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. I would appreciate any
feedback. The lilo boot commands help out tremendously.
Hoyt
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