It is a old mother board is a VX two chipset. I don't quite know how old
that makes it. but would that be appropriate for it . I know the man pages
said to use X34 with the -d switch but what does it mean. The man pages do
give a glimmer on the subject but leave more to be desired. It is safe aint
it. I just wondered I have a WD drive and it is getting extremely hot. I
already had it locked up once on me. I checked the thing and it is setup for
ATA 100 could those switches change the ATA mode of the drive ? But I
really don't mind the drive being in ATA 100 if the hardware and software
can handle it. I for sure know that the drive was built for it. Also how
well would the thing do if I put a hard drive fan on it.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 6:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] What is this
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 08:11, you 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
>
> I was told that hdparm was about adjusting the HD and I know that the
> /dev/hda is referring to device hda which is the hard drive but those
lines
> in between got me totally stumped.
> Steve Hagerman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.advancedisp.com
man hdparm
-X34 = mdma*2
-d1 Enable DMA
-A1 enable read lookahead feature
This must be for an older Motherboard. These settings woulf be appropriate
on an Intel TX chipset.
Civileme
