Re: [expert] What is this

[Stew Benedict]

Man hdparm tells it all:

-A     Disable/enable the IDE drive's read-lookahead
-d     Disable/enable the "using_dma" flag for this drive.
-X34 is used to select multiword DMA mode2 transfers

I assume 1 = enable, 0 = disable

Stew Benedict

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Steve Hagerman wrote:

> Hello I was given some code by someone and I was curious what it meant: (
> This was sent in response to my asking about hard drive optimization )
> hard drive optimization :
> hdparm -A1 -d1 -X34 /dev/hda
>