Re: [LIH] Re: Re: hdparm with kernel2.4.1

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On Monday 23 April 2001 18:56, Kingsly John wrote:
>
> Been wondering about that too... but I think it maybe because of
> fragmentation.( when fsck runs.. it shows it as x% non-contiguous)

I am not too sure. HDPARM tunes the drive. Why it should care for data on it. 
Even if the sectors it reads are useless to it, how does it matter.

I am not sure that's the reason...

>
> more non-contiguous == slower speeds.

For a program, that knows about partition and file system on drive. hdparm 
doesn't look like one...

>
> Kingsly

 Shridhar

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