Drakopt does extensive testing on your drives to find optimum settings, unless your drive is found in its in-built database (in that case it'll already know the best settings). Be sure to run it when no other apps are running (this includes X), to ensure accurate readouts for the tests.
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:07:13 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks mate, > > in grub, in menu-1st there is autotune=ide > > I removed that,, think it might help. > > does the drapopt in 8 and 8.1 do any testing before it sets parameters??? > > > rgds > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 5 October 2001 6:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] turning off hard disk optimisation... (in mdk7.2) > > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 04:58:53 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have (you would all know this by now :-) a 60 gig hard disk in my main > > web/mail server, > > > > it is running postfix on a reiserfs partition (all partitions except /boot > > are reiserfs) > > > > and I have been getting annoying messages about the mail server being > unable > > to write to open files... > > > > That shouldn't be possible so it appears to be a corrupted file system > > again, (in /var) > > > > Also, Wietse Venema the guy that wrote postfix said that it was definatly > a > > file system error... > > > > having never had problems with reiserfs before, I am thinking that the > only > > thing I can think of > > that might be the problem is that I selected "file system optimisation" > when > > I was installing 7.2 > > onto this system..,. > > > > So my question is this, if choosing that adds some hdparm parameters > > somewhere, > > > > > > Where are they so I can turn them off, reformat /var and see if that makes > a > > difference... > > > > (I looked in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and they are not there...) > > > > any suggestions would be much appreciated... > > > > > > rgds > > > > Frank > > All this option does is, as you have mentioned, is to add hdparm parameters. > Since it doesn't test the drive before adding them, there is nothing to stop > Mandrake adding settings which are incompatible with your system, which > could be > harmful to your drive. > > IIRC (it's been a while :), there is a setting called "opti" in > /etc/lilo.conf > or the GRUB equivalent. Remove it. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > "The "Internet" cannot be removed from your Desktop. > Do you want to delete the "Internet" now?" > -- Microsoft Windows 95 > -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.
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