Yes, I understand. In lieu of "engaged" I should have said "setup" ,
because somewhere there would have to be a line like:
'hdparm -m 8 -d 1 -u 1 -c 1 /dev/hda' to ensure that it is set on
subsequent re-boots. If you think you have it set, just try # hdparm -tT
/dev/whatever and look at the buffered disk reads. I went from something
like 4 MB/sec to 19.88 MB/sec. I figure its some DMA setting in
the kernel config that relates to the mobo's ide chipset. There's a whole
slew of block device settings in .config which is kinda why I wanted to
know.
I'm positive I checked that off during the install, but hell, who knows.
As Eric suggested, the only reasonable place to put the command would be
somewhere under /etc/rc.d like runlevel 3 or 5 or rc.local (which is where
I've put it).
So the burning question is: Does anybody have the hdparm command in their
rc scripts or elsewhere???
Cheers,
Dave.
On 22-Dec-2000 Amit Bapat wrote:
> hdparam is not a daemon that runs, it just sets some parameters to be
> used
> for your HD
>
>
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> From: b5dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:32:28 -0500 (EST)
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> I initially thought that install option would engage hdparm since the
> warning is the same, but hdparm was definitely not running.. That leaves
> the kernel. Does anyone know what config options get set?
>
> Thanks
> Dave.
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