I am curious, I did a -i option and got this reading:
[root@kittypuss /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, FwRev=A35.0700, SerialNo=882006262361
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63,
TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=3(DualPortCache),
BuffSize=1900kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast),
DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast) CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes,
LBAsects=20066251
WARNING 3552187 ORPHANED SECTORS :: KERNEL REPORTING ERROR <----Look!----
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2 IORDY=on/off,
tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1
*mode2 mode3 mode4 Drive Supports : Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
[root@kittypuss /root]#
Is this something I should be concerned about?(where I typed the
"Look" arrow above). If so, what should I do?
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Saturday 18 November 2000 10:13 pm, pablito wrote:
> > Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command?
>
> yes. (su to root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hd*' will read the information
> from your harddrive's (HDD) firmware (bios). Much of this information
> is useful in guessing at which hdparm options will best optimize your
> HDD.
> Once you've determined the best options by running 'hdparm -tT
> /dev/hd*', that hdparm line can be added to the end of your
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to optimize your HDD on every boot.
> EG (I have this line at the tail of rc.local for my old ata/33 linux
> HDD), hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a128 /dev/hdb
>snip
