Hello, For about a 6 month ago I used 'hdparm -M 192' to reduce noise coming from my HDD (Maxtor 60GB). It worked pretty well -- since then I can't hear my hard drive at all. Now I noticed that my (recently installed) KDE apps are starting too slow and while they are starting HDD is used pretty hard, so I think that the reason of this is that HDD's disks spin at lower speed -- that's the cost of silence :).
Now goes the main question: does the value given to -M option has some specific format? I mean, may be it has to be a some power of 2 or something like that? Or I can set any value from range specified in the man page of hdparm? "hdparm -I" gives me: <snip> Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 192 <snip> And am I correct in that setting it to higher value may improve perfomance while starting KDE apps? I have Athlon 1700+, so I don't think that slow CPU is the reason of slow-starting apps :). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
