"Colin L. Whipple" wrote:
>
> 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.
"man hdparm" to see what all that means.
> Do you mean something like
> the information at the following URL?:
>
> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html
Hard to say since I can't get that URL to work . . .
>
> Colin
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