hdparms new system

2002-01-09 Thread Stan Brown
I've gt a new modern mtherboard, and an IBM drive in a system I just built. I thought I'd play around with hdparm, and tweak up the disk preformance. I've got a custom compiled 2.4.17 kernel. Much to my supris, virtually everything I tried came back as not available. Are ther kernel patches, or

Re: hdparms new system

2002-01-09 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Much to my supris, virtually everything I tried came back as not available. Are ther kernel patches, or something that I need to apply to get DMA, and 100Meg transfer speed working? Supposedly your new motherboard has a specific chipset that was not

Re: hdparms new system

2002-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi stan if the motehrboard sees the disks during bootup...you should be okay... you can download the latest hdparm from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/utility-patches/ be sure to turn on dma mode hdparm -d1 /dev/hda - lots of options to play with...