On Tue, 23 May 2000 - Brian T. Schellenberger, you wrote:
| "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
The above link worked on my machine - using KFM. ??? :).
|
| Hard to say since I can't get that URL to work . . .
|
| >
| > Colin
|
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