I've read that you need to put it in a startup script. I put mine in the
rc.local though the sysinit or every_time maybe more desirable cause stuff in
the rc.local sometimes run more than once and seem to run on shutdown.
-s
On Friday 02 February 2001 01:47 pm, you wrote:
> I have ata100 drive and and in grub I have ide0=noautotune idebus=100
>
> On bootI see the message assuming ide33 overriding with with idebusxxx. So
> I assume it is recognizing the ata100 controll. BTW it is an Intel 815e
> MB.
>
> Now when I run hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda I get
>
> I/O suport = 0 (16-bit)
> using_dma = 0 (off)
> keepsettings = (0) off
>
> I run hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda
>
> I get the same as below, and all testing of the drive by moving files and
> etc, everything seems ok. But when I reboot, the hard drive resets
> everything back to off. I thought the hdparm -k1 /dev/hda was supposed to
> save the settings? Is there a way to make it save these setting with out
> editing an init script, if not which script to I add it do rc.local?
> sysinit?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
>
> On Tuesday 30 January 2001 07:50, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> > I'm trying to improve my HD's performance.
> >
> > HDPARM -t /dev/hda yields only 9 MB/Sec
> >
> > # hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda
> > /dev/hda:
> > I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
> > using_dma = 1 (on)
> > keepsettings = 1 (on)
> >
> > Are there other things to try to improve this?
> >
> > System: 20gig HD, 500Mhz K6/2 AMD, Asus P5A mobo.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Seve
