Works for me now, too. The server must have just been down when I tried
it before.
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote:
>
> 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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