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 -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
