On Mon, 22 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Colin L. Whipple wrote:
>
> :~>It would also be nice to have a little more info about what the "hard disk
> :~>optimizations" means. Just how likely is it that problems will result from
> :~>checking that box? What is being optimized?
>
> Instead of giving you a fish, I'll try to learn you fishing .-)
>
> see "/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime" file:
>
>
> if [ -x /sbin/hdparm ];then
> LIST_HD=$(grep '^hd.:' /var/log/dmesg|\
> grep -ivE '(CD.*ROM|DVD.*ROM|FLOPPY|TAPE|STATUS)'|cut
> -d: -f1|sort|u
> niq)
>
> if grep -i nohdparm /proc/cmdline >/dev/null ; then
> action "Hard Drive optimisations disabled" \
> echo ""
> else
> for i in $LIST_HD;do
> action "Starting Hard Drive optimisations for $i" \
> hdparm -q -c1 -q -A1 -q -m16 -q -d1 /dev/$i
> done
> fi
> fi
> ------------------------------------
> I suppose this answers the question?
Not that I can tell. All that is total Greek to me. Do you mean something like
the information at the following URL?:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html
Colin
