On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:21:41PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> *) calling hdparm is no problem (/etc/init.d/boot.local)
> *) the system does this for me if I say which drives
You should not have to call hdparm to configure the drives correctly.
> *) it's been automatically on for years (for hard disks).
Correct, assuming the kernel has specific support for your IDE
controller chipset. The Linux kernel has been setting up drives
correctly for quite some time, in most cases, but it also has had its
share of IDE problems.
I'd venture to say that most people using hdparm and a modern Linux
kernel and IDE controller chipset are either experts, or don't know what
they are really doing. You generally don't need hdparm.
> * media options can be set as module option in module.conf (but I
> agree that each module is different and the 8139too one is a PITA for
> getting 10M/duplex - media=42 or something)
What about if the NIC driver is compiled in? Linux is a little ugly in
this area.
> Some of your points are defintely what-bsd-does-as-well rather than
> what-bsd-does-over-linux. Thanks for the post though, I always wanted to
> know a few more things about bsd.
Well, there are certainly areas that each OS (and distrubition) excel
at, and there are also things that the *BSDs do that Linux don't--and
vice versa. Usually, though, if a nice feature turns up on one side of
the fence, it's not long before something similar is available on the
other side too.
Cheers,
-mjg
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