Hi John,
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, John Horne wrote:
> On 18-Apr-01 at 04:22:11 Corin Hartland-Swann wrote:
> > Did you see my earlier post suggesting:
> >
> > hdparm -m16 -c1 -d1 -a8 /dev/hdX
> >
> > It works well for all modern UDMA drives. Put it into your rc scripts if
> > ti works for you.
>
> With my redhat 7 system the file /etc/sysconfig/harddisks can also be used
> to set drive parameters. By default most (look ahead, use dma, etc) are
> commented out. I have no idea if it applies to earlier RH versions or other
> distros (i.e. whether it is a 'standard' linux file or not).
I don't have this on my Mandrake 7.2 boxes, and Mandrake forked from a
RedHat base back in RH6.2 days I believe - so I'm guessing this is a RH7.0
addition, and a good idea at that.
Mandrake does prompt you during installation to turn on "Hard Drive
Optimisations" but suggests you only do that if you know what you're doing
:(
Regards,
Corin
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