On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Garrison Hoffman wrote:
> Chris Knadle wrote:
> > Biggest tweak to write speed I can suggest for starters is DMA +
> > 32-bit access by tweaking with 'hdparm'.
>
> I had considered this but I have S-ATA drives and `sudo hdparm -c 1
> /dev/sda` says:
>
> /dev/sda:
>   setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1
>   HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
>   IO_support    =  0 (default 16-bit)

   If you want to tweak hard disk parameters on SATA drives, look 
for 'blktool'.  There's also a version of hdparm for SCSI called 'sdparm'.

   -- Chris

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